Have you ever noticed that people have a tendency to add words to their vocabulary simply because it’s the word of the month? Lately, the word is “existential”: of or relating to existence, esp human existence. If you read the news we have existential threats every where and every day. Some people get carried away with the word, for example:
“If the former president is reelected it is an existential threat!!!”
“Ms. Swift is a huge fan of the current president, that’s an existential threat to us all!!!”
“ChatGPT and GossipGPT are existential threats!!!”
“ShrinkFlation of my Nachos Dorados is an existential threat, EGAD!!!”
“My Cell phone is dead, no selfies, no tick tocks, no nothing -it’s an existential threat OMG!!!!”
Dictionary.com selected this word as the word of the year in 2019. So if they are on board, you know everything is an existential threat. What are we to do with so much doom at hand? It’s not like I can climb a volcano and throw the ring of existentialism in the fiery chasm from whence it came. I just saw a series of commercials for a cellphone where the actors are told, “That’s a little dramatic.”
