Greetings from downtown Mankato, Minnesota. I’m John. Been getting the wtf emails since about the time they started. They are very frequently the only email I will actually bother to open, any given day. I can not overstate the very high esteem in which I hold all of the people behind it. I always feel a little bit better informed after looking over each and every email in whatever state of mind I happen to be in.
You have not once harangued me, nor even once linked (that I know of!) to a total bullshit story. You haven’t wasted precious funds sending fancily designed and very finely-printed snail mail (asking for money, naturally!) to my house. You’ve never either tugged at my heartstrings or made me feel ashamed for not sending you money. You do not waste words making ill-informed calls to action on anything like a daily (let alone a multiple-times-per-day!) basis. And (last but not least!) you deeply honour me – the reader – as a human being capable of independent rational thought by not once playing to my baser emotions, making me feel either powerless and afraid or outraged, forcing my badly overworked amygdala to kick in before engaging my prefrontal cortex.
You are not the only, but one of very few remaining rare and precious voices of sanity in my inbox which hasn’t given up, or gone offline to take a splendidly well-earned vacation, or cashed all your chips in, joined a cult or militia (or both!), disconnected from the grid entirely, or gone out with a shotgun to live in a cabin in the woods. Words can not convey the gratitude I feel for each and every one of you each day.
All the best!
Be well,
JMW
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