Getting back to normal

[bobcat]

Good point. I once read that they added the qurrkiness to Jack Nicholson's character after a focus group found him too "normal". Also think that sometimes a better word might be traditional or even acceptable

I like those two words. But who decides what is acceptable?

 

[bobcat]

Define normal!

I can only give the dictionary meaning as "conforming to a standard". But if the standard keeps moving, then it seems we are chasing a ghost.

 

[Alligatorob]

Getting back to normal

Illinois?
https://theflatsatisu.com/how-did-normal-illinois-get-its-name/

 

[OldFeller]

Normal is a term used to describe what is likely to happen in a majority of cases considered.

Abnormal describes anything outside what has been found to be normal in the majority of cases considered.

 

[Lee]

Normal is to be the average Joe....or in my case Josephine.

 

[bobcat]

Illinois? https://theflatsatisu.com/how-did-normal-illinois-get-its-name/

Loved the song. I guess it turns out that there is a normal. It just happens to be a town in Illinois.

 

[chic]

We often hear people using the word "normal" as though it is some defined parameter of human experience. I'm not so sure I know what that should mean in todays world, and perhaps it's has always had a rather nebulous meaning, with a rather fluid concept.

Is being attracted to the same sex and marrying them normal? Is circumcision normal? Is not having a specific gender anymore normal? Is it normal to buy a perfectly good pair of jeans and then rip holes in them to look stylish? Is talking to ourselves normal?

Should we just divorce ourselves from that word, tear up the psychiatric bible, put on our scuba fins and swim vigorously down the river of denial? Maybe normalcy is some mythological tent we all pretend to live under as we chip away at the very meaning of the word. Does the word get updated every year like the software on my devices? Who gets to decide what is and is not normal? Aren't we all different? I'm beginning to think that "normal" is merely a cycle on the washing machine. What say ye?

I feel the destruction of our country and identity is being deployed by our own government who continually rams the absurd/abnormal in our faces and expects us to conform to a new normal, which is insanity in many ways, so to object to it tells me there are some who are not falling for the nonsense. Nor should they. I think what's happening is deliberate..

 

[Judycat]

Uh oh. Here comes the boss. Try to act normal. Normal as in not so bizarre that you attract unwanted attention.

 

[Jamala]

I believe the word "normal" is somewhat irrelevant these days.
I prefer "different."

 

[davey]

'normal' has created parameters - if your personality is found to not fit into those certain parameters then you will be labelled 'abnormal' which is simple another state of being that does not fit into certain parameters. The major problem as I see it is who keeps setting these effin parameters? - they are like moving goalposts - ya know the sliding ones?