Dictionary.com has named Existential as its
“ Word of The Year”.
Imagine that. A word almost no one uses except the media elitists.
I’m betting on Greta Sunberg as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
That you live in a world in which the only times you hear the word
existential is when the media "elitists" use it speaks volumes about the company you keep. It is common vernacular in my professional world as well as in my social circles, with the Thunberg-esque aspect of it being neither dominant nor starting with her in the climate crisis sense.
What a small world you occupy.
Will she be PotY on Time? Wouldn't be a shock, though I suspect she be one of many if they go that way, as she is not alone in what she does.