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The Trouble with Normal: It is not what I thought it was nor what it will become. [1]
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Date: 2025-03-13
So, I just finished reading (7 pm MDT Feb. 12) Malcom Nance: URGENT WARNING: Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland by Community contributor ivankaforprison
It is a good read and I recommended it but the funny thing is it was the comments that really got my brain juices flowing. It made me reconsider what Normal is today. Some comments discount the threat that Trump will use military force against Canadas and /or Greenland as nothing but bluster and click bait. Others are not so sure and wonder if the military would actually follow an order to invade, yada yada yada.
So some feel many are overreacting, which is Normal.
Other feel many are underreacting, which is also Normal.
I hear and read about many wishing that things would just get back to Normal. The thing is I now believe there really is no such thing as Normal and it is just a myth, which I came to understand reading an article which I will share further below.
It also remined me of a Bruce Cockburn song from many many years ago (1987) that is more relevant today than it was almost 40 years ago. Just replace reference to Third World with your country/person or persons of choice.
I am only sharing the lyrics as I feel that in this case, the words stand better on their own as the music may be a bit of a distraction, and dated.
From the album Waiting for a Miracle (how fitting)
"The Trouble With Normal"
Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage
Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights
What did they think the politics of panic would invite?
Person in the street shrugs, "Security comes first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the Third World trying to keep it on its knees
Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea
And the local Third World's kept on reservations you don't see
"It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse
Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
AZLyrics
“What did they think the politics of panic would invite? and “Person in the street shrugs, "Security comes first" really hit home as well as “Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the Third World trying to keep it on its knees”
The whole song seems to resonate with todays worldscape.
Elon Ket Head Musk was only 13 years old when Bruce wrote this! Yes I realize that he nor his DOGE crew wear suits but their wardrobe is technically a costume, and lets face it, he is not Normal!
So it is clear to me that what I considered Normal is not static and appears to be evolving into something I am not comfortable with. Especially as I see what is becoming Normal behaviour from the T-administration and some countries moving/accepting the far right push in Europe.
Merriam-Webster defines NORMAL as:
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