(Read Part One of this train of thought here.)
“Normal.”
“The way things are.”
“The status quo.”
When you go along with it, it’s invisible, like water to a fish (or air to a human). But as soon as you stop going with the flow, you can run up against it like a brick wall (it’s a non-Newtonian fluid, obviously). Or as Emily Dickinson so memorably put it:
“Normal.”
“The way things are.”
“The status quo.”
When you go along with it, it’s invisible, like water to a fish (or air to a human). But as soon as you stop going with the flow, you can run up against it like a brick wall (it’s a non-Newtonian fluid, obviously). Or as Emily Dickinson so memorably put it:
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
I tend to be more optimistic than she was, but it’s undeniable that anything perceived as a challenge to the way things are is bound to be met with resistance. Resistance to change. Resistance to the very idea that change is needed. Even when the change would be positive.
Here’s a relevant anecdote:
Here’s a relevant anecdote:
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