And I use “normal” in scare quotes, because, according to whom, exactly, capitalism? Society? Yourself? Some of the “weirdest” people I’ve met in my life where also some of the nicest and actually helped me out. People you’d peg as “normal”? Well I’ve had my fair share of shit with them. I’m not about to put up with some reddit lord trying to score points with cool kid podcasters by throwing people who feed the homeless under the bus, fuck you very much.
How do they square the circle with the fact that nobody in Burgerland is fucking normal? Every Burgerlander is a fucking freak compared with the rest of humanity. “Being normal” in the Burgerland context just means being unhinged but being unhinged in such a way that the majority of other unhinged freaks approve of your particular brand of unhinginess. Burgerlanders are even freaks compared with other Westerners, who themselves aren’t exactly close to the global median of normality either.
(Yes, I know the idea of normality itself is problematic, but even if you accept this problematic framing, the vast majority of Burgerlanders aren’t normal compared with the rest of the world. The only “normal” people in the US are immigrants from the Global South.)
They of course don’t mean normal in a global sense. The biggest things you can do to “be normal” are:
Well, maybe not quite as much when brace is saying it vs even more libbed up people, but
Be able-bodied, in speech especially
Yes of course, not just in speech but speech and like ‘the articulate way’ is so much centered for normality.