December 29, 2001

• Normalcy, Part II

  
  

  There are times when someone replies to your blog, and does a better job of saying what you wanted to say than you did.  Rabid Squirrel  has done that... so I'll just paste his message here.

  
  

  
  

  Because nobody wants to label themselves as a conformist, everybody tells themselves that they're different in one of the ways that you've listed.  The sad truth of it is that, 99% of the time, it's simply wishful thinking, leaving unfulfilled this impotent desire to be "someone who doesn't follow the crowd".

  
  

  Seriously.  When 50% of the population lives through divorce, what constitutes "dysfunction"?  Freud aside, the statistics relating to "bizarre sexual fantasies" occur in so enormous a segment of the population that it really should no longer be considered "bizarre".  And perhaps the worst and most oft-repeated item on the list, too many people confuse their sense of humor as being "weird" instead of "inane" (not that I'm a humor Nazi or anything...whatever floats your comedic boat, right?)

  
  

  Thanks, Squirrley one!  Your articulation made my day.

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