Just a regular guy......................

 

more fun here

Normal.....................

 

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. 

-Albert Camus

We shouldn't forget, as we learned in school, that normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority.

This is why............................

 ......................one always checks in with Sippican Cottage.

And with God as my witness, I have played a polka version of Sweet Child of Mine. I’m not proud of that, exactly, but I’m not ashamed of it, either. Why be normal?

As we say around the neighborhood, normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority.

That's a relief..................

 Greatest hits, by their nature, are unusual. And if the media you’re absorbing is selected from a billion possible clips, don’t be surprised if you start to believe that the unusual is normal.

It’s not.

-Seth Godin, from here 

It is early in the game, but "Unprecedented" has jumped to an enormous lead to be 2023's "Word of the Year".........

 We live in unprecedented times. The recession in 2020 was not so much a recession as it was a lockdown. Using “normal words” to describe the economy in the last 3 years, we believe, does not make sense. 

-Brian Wesbury

Complicated geniuses........................

 ...............Social norms are for normal people.

One should not forget...................

 .....................that normalcy is just the psychosis of the majority.

21st century problems..................

from the wonder that is xkcd

Yea, but this sounds really hard.........

The way to rob the narrative managers of their ability to manipulate our sense of normalcy is to create an image of a sane and healthy world for ourselves to hold onto at all times, and to make that image into our own personal sense of what normal is. By having a vivid picture of what a sane and healthy world would look like in your mind, the false normal that the propagandists are trying to sell you will have no purchase.

-as culled from here

And don't forget, as we've said here many times before, normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority.

As we've said many times before............

.......................normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority.

thank you, kind sir

Norms..............................

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.” 

-Alfred Adler, about whom more can be found here

Ed. Note:  The Adler quote brings to mind another favorite:  "normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority"

What is normal.............................?

This is where language plays a huge role, because words reflect how we think, and many argue they constrain how we think. “Normal” is a messy and imprecise word, and if you use it your thinking is likely also messy and imprecise. In most situations it is probably best just to avoid the word, and to think about what you really mean.

-Steven Novella, as cut-and-pasted from this blog post mulling over the subject of normal/deviant

For what it's worth, this blog has long supported the contention that normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority.

Normalcy..........................

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” 


-Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Never forgetting that.............................

.................normalcy is the psychosis of the majority, I'm pretty sure this quote is correct.

Working at it................................

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Just one more proof...................

............that normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority:

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Nature.............................

“There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.” 
-Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

photo via

A damn good question..............

Lest we forget, our favorite quote around here is that "normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority."

cartoon via

Normal.........................

As faithful readers may attest, from time-to-time we have noted here that "normalcy is merely the psychosis of the majority."  Captivated by the accordionist photo below (found first here), The Oracle Google was quickly perused for other "normal" images.  A few selections:

Barbie vs Reality

Or, as we used to say......................

..........................................................back in the fraternity house, "Normalcy is just the psychosis of the majority."

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” 
-Aldous Huxley