If enemies know that coup attempts go unpunished in America, that opens up a whole new angle of attack. It would do the opposite of restoring normality.
Alright, lets try to get some sense of normality back. By that I mean work on art and pretend shit isn't fucked.
It’s understandable, and you’re hardly alone in the worries of what people think. I’m not abdl, but I know that I still sometimes try to fake normality in fear of what others will think.
I feel you there, I used to subscribe to the idea of “normality”, even though I was never the best at actually being what society considers normal.
This needs totally reframed. The normality should be work is an exchange of time for money and it is OK if you want to love it, but that really isn't and shouldn't be the expected norm. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...
We’re constantly told that passion is what makes work fulfilling. But can being head over heels have its downsides?
the distraction is not in the image; it is in the technology. Companies seem to want to users to believe that they should collaborate in changing images to match a preconceived "normality" like petty bureaucrats in a personal Ministry of Truth
I’ve been thinking a lot about how society tries to condition us to alter our personalities to fit what is deemed to be socially “normal”; and to harshly judge people who fail to conform to the public perception of “normality”. We live in a society that’s designed to crush individuality.
I think Democrats were "projecting normality" right up to JANUARY 6....there is no longer any "normality" to "project"...just the battle to try and regain it ..
The last few days of recovery feels like . . Dying . . Knowing everything has to go back. Freedom fleeting and the normality of being disregarded by everyone you meet again. The terror is immense over something that's completely normal and only slightly familiar, but it almost feels valid.
It makes me very sad to think the takeaway some people took from Timothy Snyder was to project normality at all costs, even if that means doing completley inappropriate, bizarre, abnormal things, like not using the Insurrection Act during an ongoing insurrection. That's not what he meant.