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> There's no normal to go back to. I mean, sure, if you define "normal" as something other than what was there before, okay, but then it becomes a moot point.
by StavrosK 6y ago
> There's no normal to go back to.
I mean, sure, if you define "normal" as something other than what was there before, okay, but then it becomes a moot point. There is a clear meaning to what "normal" means when people say it, and it's "whatever we were doing before".
Who defines what "normal" really is, anyway?
- carapace 6y agoThat's what I mean, what we were doing before was exponential growth and the Industrial Revolution resulting in, specifically, mass international travel and huge numbers of people crammed together into mega-cities. The recent viral outbreaks aren't a one-off: they are the beginning of the new normal. We're victims of our own success.