He was introduced on September 24, 2018, as the hockey team’s very first mascot. Gritty is the new mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers. The easiest question to answer about Gritty is who he is and where he came from. Ho ho ho! Gritty Christmas! Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Gritty, Explained An explainer in four acts by Emily VanDerWerff Act 1: Gritty the mascot The whole thing with Paddington 2 wouldn’t have happened otherwise. There is a hunger for this new meaning all around us. We want the morals of religious stories, but in a new secular language that preaches a desire to strive for the common good. We want authoritative figures to say, “This is right, and this is wrong.” We long for superheroes to save us and demonstrate the power of good when it stands against evil. I’m wondering, more and more, if what we want most in 2010s America - and what we are desperately lacking - is moral clarity. (This says as much about the flaws of Twitter as anything else, I’m aware.) It feels, at least to me, like every day, the world becomes a little more ghoulish and harder to bear, and if I’m having a good day, well, all I have to do is hop on Twitter to be reminded of why I should maybe feel otherwise. But so is the sense that some fundamental promise of America has been lost in the name of progress weighted too heavily toward one side of our capitalist ledger. So, yes, the free-floating fear of death is definitely a thing. We might all die from the aliens who keep making cameo appearances in the hinterlands of our credible news sources. We might all die from artificial intelligence taking our place.
We might all die from the changing climate. The end is nigh, but what form it takes is open to suggestion. How can it be that we’re living on a planet that is, in many ways, the best place to live in human history, but also on the verge of cataclysm? I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like something has broken in the world in the 21st century. That’s what we were led to believe, at least. The world was supposed to get better, right? Things were supposed to start making more sense.
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