Amid this Era of chaos, there remains a stubborn yearning for something more. We are, as Bellow's characters often are, seekers. We seek meaning in a world that often seems indifferent to our quest. We seek connection in a landscape that prioritizes efficiency over intimacy. We seek transcendence in a culture that often reduces the sacred to the transactional. This tension—between our aspirations and our limitations, our ideals and our realities—is the essence of the modern condition.