What exactly are we referring to when when we say, “I’ll be glad when things get back to normal.”?? The time that we thought we knew that was existent in the days, weeks, months, and minutes right before we were told that a contagious health crisis had broken out? Is that the normal time? What really is normal in this sense? Is it a time in which a usual state prevailed that was reasonably sustainable, healthy, and ok; quote-unquote, normal? Is it a time in our freedom was free, and our liberty intact? My guess is that we’re talking about a time that’s in a bit of a vacuum, a figment of a fancy imagination. Everything certainly is relative. There are major ecological, environmental, basic human need, and okayness issues that are just as important now as they were before “so called” pandemic hit. Is that the normal we want back, or what!? It’s more like the actual normal is the normalcy of crisis events popping up, one after another, to grab our attention, and interrupt the recognizing and/or avoiding ever increasing levels of abnormality. So much for the cliche, “Normal.” How about reconsidering the whole concept of what normal even means?
A new gestalt is the foundation of what, heretofore, be referred to as normal. The parts of this body of ideas and understanding will include the forsaken facts of our millennium, or better yet millennia! All the marginalization of many core formative issues of our minds and times are routinely jammed into a box of “I told you so” by official tellers of what’s claimed to be our collective story. The diversity of truths that get dismissed by the railroading insistences of authority historians is monumental. Unearthing, exposing, and evaluating the dismissed, “it happened the way we said narrative” is the root of new understanding. It can’t help but be more authentic than what’s called history now. Until that stuff gets faced squarely, we can go back all we we want, the satisfaction of whatever one would like to call normal is gonna be mighty messed up. For the sake of brevity, let’s just say that ALL the theories thought of as conspiracy are the basis for evaluation in the quest of what I’m referring to as normal. Maybe going back isn’t so wise after all. Moving on.