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Out of all the buzzwords to come out of COVID, "new normal" is maybe my least favorite. What the hell does it even mean?
by Trasmatta 6y ago
Out of all the buzzwords to come out of COVID, "new normal" is maybe my least favorite. What the hell does it even mean?
- akiselev 6y agoLike all great buzzwords, its vague enough to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean.
- asplake 6y agoI suspect it may have been inspired by Virginia Satir’s change model, specifically the “new status quo” at its end
- walterbell 6y agoIt means a word virus has found a new carrier of semantic dilution.
- OJFord 6y agoThat what ends up being considered 'normal' is not what used to be (the 'old normal').
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe phrase somewhat predates 2020: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the%20new%20normal&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20new%20normal%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the%20new%20no... With some pop culture antecedents as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Normal_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Normal_(TV_series)
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI've heard "new normal" in common usage for [at least] most of my adult life (I'm 37). I don't think I've ever been confused about its meaning either. "New normal" implies some prior normal, and represents a substantial and permanent delta between the two.