Yes, I agree with you. I doubted anyone would read that much into it, despite the plain existential angst as a backdrop. The conflation of normal and normative

Yes, I agree with you. I doubted anyone would read that much into it, despite the plain existential angst as a backdrop. The conflation of normal and normative reaches into Wittgensteinian territory, but normative is normal. Hell, even the good end of a bell curve can be seen as a bad thing.