Nearly a century ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote of “the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.” Today the very word normal is almost taboo.
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We are witnessing what might be called the eclipse of the normal—an eccentric phase of modern history in which huge numbers of people feign ignorance of what is perfectly obvious.
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Modern man is thoroughly cut off from his past. He and his ancestors would be total strangers to each other. The essential problem is a new form of hypocrisy in which we all feel pressure to affect ignorance of things everyone used to know—and which most people still do know.
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Yes, it is astounding to see people working so hard to deny what they know is true.
It's also disconcerting to hear such people label as "Nazi" anyone who denies the existence of normal.
But there is a normal and an abnormal and all the denials and re-educations in the world will not make the distinction go away.
There is nothing normal about homosexuality.
There is nothing normal about abortion.
There is nothing normal about cannibalism.
There is nothing normal about interracial marriage.
Etc....
Etc....
And if one becomes accepted as normal, the others are sure to follow.
Think that's an extreme expectation?
Read and consider the full article linked above.
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