Yes, we lost the World—and it’s not a bad thing. The pandemic not so much deprived us of the world as revealed that the world we assumed existed was a fragile and unevenly distributed construct, inaccessible to some humans, not to mention other animals. The World we lost was a correlation that created Man—a metaphysical entity separate from actual humans, and sometimes even actively hostile to them. This correlation ensured that the World was always already in place, as a condition for Man to exist; its existence was either assumed in advance or constructed too hastily. Its function was to provide Man with an illusion of feelng at home.