To download and install Zoom on your desktop:

The installation process is streamlined to get you into your first meeting within minutes. Download Center for Zoom Apps and Plugins

The "Zoom desktop download" is the act of signing a contract that agrees to trade the messy, warm, inconvenient friction of physical reality for the sterile, efficient, high-definition simulation of connection. It is the moment we agreed to live in the grid, to be reduced to ones and zeros, and to call it a meeting.