I ask people, “How am I?” because I want THEM to deal with an existential question that doesn’t intimately involve their own existence.
If someone asks me how I am, I tell them I don’t answer existential questions on days ending in “y”.
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
I ask people, “How am I?” because I want THEM to deal with an existential question that doesn’t intimately involve their own existence.
If someone asks me how I am, I tell them I don’t answer existential questions on days ending in “y”.