Just a bit over a year ago Elmo of Sesame Street fame tweeted a question to his 457,000 followers on X. It was a simple question: “Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?’
He received thousands of responses. “Elmo I’m depressed and broke” was one. People wrote that xthey had been laid off, were anxious about 2024 (with good reason), or their dog had rolled in goose feces. How about “Elmo each day the abyss we stare into grows into a unique horror. One that was previously unfathomable in nature. Our inevitable doom which once accelerated in years or months now accelerates in hours, even minutes.”
In all Elmo received over 9000 responses. Elmo replied the next day, “Wow! Elmo is glad he asked! Elmo learned it is important to ask a friend how they are doing.”
What would people say now? I can’t think of one thing that has improved since last February. Not a single one.
Information for this post is from Callie Holtermann, “The Day Elmo Asked An Innocent Question,” New York Times , (Feb. 4, 2024).
By the way, dear readers, I am planning to go a week without mentioning the orange bozo in the White House unless I just can’t help myself.
Roy, how are doing?
ReplyDeleteI hope you and David are both doing OK
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