Wait until November 2024 and I’ll let you know.
US Presidential election, for anyone outside of America wondering why this got so many upvotes
Too early to say. Crazy has been modestly rebuked and it’s only making them more crazy. Even if main crazy is punished, we might see fringe crazy respond in a variety of obviously undesirable ways. If they do, then normal crazy might step back out of a desire not to be seen as associating with fringe crazy, but that doesn’t mean that crazy will have passed. Crazy will just change tactics and lightly rebrand to new crazy.
The only way to end crazy is to thwart crazy’s plans at every turn and make crazy nonviable as a means for gaining power.
Crazy is the new normal
Instead of using terms like normal or crazy, I’ll instead use terms like stability. Things are pretty unstable where I live right now. The economy is unstable; high gas prices, high rent and home prices, high mortgage rates, high homeowners insurance rates with some leaving the state, the closure of small and local businesses are increasing, etc. My state also has a political crisis, a restrictions of rights and extremism from the far right.
I go outside, talk to my friends, my extended family, it feels normal and stable.
I go online, and apparently the US is dying.
I think ita just an online thing.
Going “back to normal” is homeostasis. We don’t do and have never done that. We do allostasis: adapt to the new thing.
People do indeed seem to be adapting to the new thing. You can tell because they are still here.
Wise words
Normal is, just like beauty, in the eye of the beholder…
Oh wait, that’s truth, normal is what the majority accepts… we’re domed, just don’t look up.
The way I see it, things are continuing down the crazy path but it feels more normal because people aren’t denying it completely like they were a decade ago.
Yes.
Definitely crazy. But when things get weird, they usually get even weirder as a response before settling down. I think things will start to settle down soon, into a new normal where it’s not absolutely nuts out there.
I think normal died around this time in 2019 for me.
To give some context, in Judaism Rosh Hashanah (which coincidentally just ended) is the new year. There’s a superstition that whatever you do on Rosh Hashanah will be a reflection of the upcoming year. For example, if you nap you’ll have a lazy year.
Anyway, that year, my younger son and I were at Temple for services. We noticed someone sitting behind us who seemed odd, but didn’t think much of it. At some point, he left so we focused on the service.
Midway through the service, my rabbi suddenly shouted NO with the same force as Gandalf addressing the Balrog. Then I saw why. The “odd guy” was running down aisle shouting happy new year to everyone. He was wearing a t-shirt. And ONLY a t-shirt.
He reached the front and tried to get up the stairs to where the rabbi, cantor, and torahs were. Only, my rabbi clotheslined him back down the stairs. The ushers rushed in and dragged him off. My son was smart and looked away. I wasn’t as smart and got “visual confirmation” that he wasn’t wearing anything below the waist. It was only for a moment but it burned into my brain.
So remember how I said “how Rosh Hashanah goes, your year goes?” I joked with my wife later that hopefully this wouldn’t mean we were going to have a crazy year.
Then 2020 hit.
Only I think this got stuck somehow and now EVERY year is crazy.
Wait, so YOU’RE the reason we’re stuck in this crazy timeline?! Why didn’t you say so earlier we could have done something about this years ago!
Next year at Rosh Hashanah post here again. We’ll all come to your Temple and make sure you have the most normal service imaginable. We’ll ring the building keeping any crazies out to ensure all of our future’s track back to normal. Just let us know!
You have to provide more context…
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We can’t shift back to normal. It was never normal. It was just a different flavour of crazy. Sure, it’s easier to see this new crazy, but it’s also more honest. Sliding back is nothing but regression, and THAT scares me.
Those who actually push for regression are scary. But they don’t truly push for regression, they push for a cherry picked and misremembered version of the past. And the bits they would like to keep vs rollback are different from how I would choose. But a lot of the elements of what we have now are not improvements on the past and I think we need to figure out how to undo some of the damage we’ve done.
And I think part of the reason we have so many scary regressive people is because they feel the ways that the world has gotten worse, even if they misdiagnose it.
They don’t know they’re pushing for regression, but that’s what it is. And a fool can cause as much chaos as a villain.
I’ve worked in programming for long enough to know that one person’s bug is often a security feature, or a feature someone else literally can’t work without. Sometimes, they’re the one that asked for it. If that gets rolled back, it would cause regression issues and that’s literally what they’re called.
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