Does normal exist, as it often requires another word-new. People across the globe create and submit to new norms. What is normal?

Normal is an “in the moment” interpretation of events, creating brief standards for expectation. It does not accommodate climate change, a tribe, nor can normals fit into just two groups-us and them. Experienced over time, norms suggest periods of how things are, or should be, when people interpret the here and now.

Modernity, in its many facets, has made things like institutional educations, abundant all age disease and depression, adding new letters to LGBTQAI…normal, accepted as just part of living in this century. Meanwhile, the illiterate receive diplomas, the sick and depressed are prescribed drugs and treatments, and stigmas and bathrooms become more diverse.

Why are so many in modern society accepting norms and not asking why? A child learns to walk and talk on their own accord, why not read and write? Disease and depression are not signals of health, so why are we using drugs or procedures over promoting health? DSDs (differences of sex development) have dramatically increased in the last ten years, and while accommodations are needed, we know it is biological over choice, yet refusing to ask why. People are responsible for resulting norms and, when trends are made typical, it becomes a new normal we simply accept.

We understand the results of authoritarianism, peer pressures, and the developing human brain. It would then be a good time to revaluate how to better educate our children?

We understand some of why people suffer disease and depression: insufficient nutrition, lack of fitness, chemical exposure,….It would too be a good time to focus on improving lifestyles and environments to promote a healthier society.

We see how chemicals influence environments, water, soil, and other organisms, then, today would also be an appropriate time to address the physiological and psychological effects our vast chemical usage has on the human organism.

Food for thought.

People are consumers and consume news headlines and articles from across the globe. We click together through social media forming larger groups of affirmation to appease confirmation, status quo, and belief biases. The new normal is larger, stronger, and more diverse than in any other time in history, shaping societies of sameness, forcing distinction in other ways.

Should we accept EVs and PVs as answers to climate change, Swifty dads as roles for infusing esteem, or any other item on the growing list of deprecating norms riding the heals of media based ideas, disregarding long term effect.

Today’s woven media can sell an environmentalist nuclear energy, an ecologist a Tesla®, a health nut junk food, a chat group their political vote, and young adults AI. When people buy in to norms, they ignore possible causation, perpetuating negative outcomes. What are the effects on young girls whose fathers cannot afford time nor Swift tickets; what are the influences on children whose parents choose their gender or suffer gender disappointment? The same thing that happens to our children in industrialized educations, they become jaded. Often these new ideas, mere results of desires and attitudes, create a realm of total disregard to our history or future, nonetheless to human capacities. Without acknowledging and accepting what we know to structure human behavior, the norms will be what we are delivered in media platforms of advertising.

When do we consider our continuing ideas of consumerism exceed one Earth’s capacity for resources?

When do we come to terms with using substances that violate living creatures and environments?

When do we find a way to engender woman without emasculating men.

When do we educate children to navigate the world in which they live?

Before simply accepting the trends of normalcy sweeping media, should we contemplate, ask a few questions: ‘espoused by whom, why, and what could be the (other) result?’

                                                                             -Paul

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