# Click to see which kind of normal you are

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2016/07/05/click-to-see-which-kind-of-normal-you-are/
- Published: 2016-07-05T20:32:31+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

![](https://draganescu.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/4df88-1kwwq0y2symve4rapkljbpw.
jpeg)

Say, do you know the difference between:

 * normality as defined by majority, and
 * normality as defined by society?

What is the difference between society and majority?

Society is time bound. Majorities are interest bound.

When you heard Obama say “on the wrong side of history” he was talking about society.

When you hear Trump say “it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as
you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass” he was talking to the majority.

The thing is: you can talk _about _societies and _to _majorities, because societies
are hard to grasp but majorities are simple. Nothing outside of religion ever grasped
whole societies, while the correct lowest common denominator will always get you
a simple majority.

Politics is the fight between society and majority. A society includes both the 
majority and the minority. The political game is the constant attempt of the majority
to seize the power of the minority.

_It doesn’t matter who looks on the side of the Good. It doesn’t matter who is right.
It doesn’t matter who fights for worthy principles._

Democracy should be the power of society, but instead is the rule of the majority.
Simple majorities make democracies soft on the inside. Sure, the shell is hard, 
the exoskeleton of feudalism, slavery, masters and servants all died and made the
tough protection which keeps us in the warmth of our democracy. But its all soft
on the inside, like an armored bug.

A democracy without the power of the minority will revert to extremes, which do 
only one thing: break societies. Whenever the minority is powerless the society 
is corrupted. It’s that simple. Maybe extremes are the mutation we need to evolve.
Maybe not, and extremes are the things which hold us back as a living species for
a hundred thousand years.

What is normal?

Normal is the stability of a certain group of people. Normality defines the base
metaphor on which the entire education process is based on. There are many types
of normality, depending on their area of influence: personal, family, group, social,
biologic and so on. The sole preoccupation of normality is stability. I am sitting
on my normality so that the absurdity of my existence does not crumble the matchbox
of meaning I made.

When societies define the normal, the normal is weak and generic, but it will permeate
all aspects of life, it will suffocate all individuality. When majorities define
the normal the normal is strong and particular, but it will pierce through diversity
relentlessly. Individuality is not the same thing as diversity. Many unique individuals
do not make a diverse society. A diverse society has powerful minorities and strong
individuals. A society of strong individuals and powerless minorities is fascist.
A society with powerless individuals and powerless minorities is totalitarian. A
society with powerless individuals but strong minorities is a fallen civilization.

Neither form of normal works for the greater good of mankind. But because we are
guided by ourselves we’ll constantly choose between the two types of normality. 
In an ideal world we’d quit even using the term. But we don’t and we strive so hard
to be normal.

I would choose the social normality over the majority normality, because societies
are time bound and hence change fast. Only natural disasters, wars, disease and 
major technological breakthroughs break majorities, therefore their normal is stable
and long lasting. What do you choose?