Normality is a form of social control (and not being normal is good, actually)
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- ✧You are not normal (and that’s a good thing) - revolutionaryth0t✧
A video essay debunking the utility of the concept of “averageness” and discussing how the normality paradigm came about, who it serves, and what we can do about it.
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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism - Robert Chapman
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health - Micha Frazer-Carroll
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How to design for everyone in 5 steps
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When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
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L’Homme Moyen and Monstrosities
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The Psychoanalytic Tradition in American Psychiatry: The Basics
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00:00 Intro
2:10 1. The average person does not exist
6:33 2. Health as normality
12:03 3. The glorification of averages
18:43 4. Eugenics bad, psychoanalysis kinda mid?
23:49 5. Anti-psychiatry
30:08 6. Unity through uniqueness
33:26 Concluding remarks - Zábava
Ever since I remember, I've encouraged people around me to embrace their "abnormality" as something good by saying, "You're weird? Good. Normality is so boring." and I really hope that at least some of them really got what I was trying to say this whole time.
Great video, I will be sharing it with my friends. I hope they'll like it too. Cheers!
Yesss I love that!!
Thank you! 🫶
The view count on your videos is a legit crime
No, its a warcime, it's like singing Oj Alija Aljo in frpnt of the ORH of Bosnia
I'm confident it will increase soon! The videos are really good
yes exactly what i’ve been saying, she deserves a way bigger audience she does great work
Thank you haha hopefully the algorithm blesses me soon!!
I thought her video had a few hundred k before reading your comment. This video deserves a hundred tomes what it has now.
I was just talking with my therapist about this exact topic a couple minutes before finding your video.
It's really mindblowing to realise just how much suffering we can got trough in the search for a normalcy that neither does exist nor can we remotely fit into, particularly as a neurodivergent queer individual thats been seen as an "other" for the longest time.
Great video, it hit home and helped punctualise a couple ideas I'd been chewing on recently.
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I'm neurodivergent, queer, fat, and I tried converting to Buddhism when I was a teenager. Now I'm disabled too. First I was bullied by my peers, now by the government.
I hope it gets better for you in the future. Btw, im also trying out buddhism
I fight for a world where the central fiction isn't based on conflict.
conflict allows us to understand harmony. your eyes conflict to allow to see depth.
@@texanarchy666 you misunderstand what I meant. Trying to rid the world of conflict would be impossible. Conflict is currently at the heart of our world's power base. I want conflict to not be the MAIN reason things happen.
@@MayonakaMidnighter Youre gonna have to be more specific about what you consider "conflict;" that word encompasses everything from a mild disagreement to nuclear war
@@scottbuck1572 If you don't understand the concept of a "Central Fiction" you shouldn't be trying to talk to me, otherwise you're literally proving my point.
@@MayonakaMidnighter hey I genuinely haven't heard of this concept before and when I try to google it it just comes up with a game, do you mind explaining what it means? genuine question lmao
The campaign slogan of the biggest political party and premier of the Netherlands Mark Rutte for the last 10 years was 'act normal' (doe normaal), they are the "liberal" party of the country so it shows that freedom that they preach really only is for a very small group of people (also great video loved it, its such a unique and interesting topic ❤)
idk how any europeans call themselves anything but monarchists, since they all seem to be keen on tolerating monarchs in perpetuity instead of like, abolishing them to remove their entrenched power over society.
As a neurodivergent Queer, I can confidently say that this is really euphoric for me to hear that me being "outside of normalcy" is good. Thank you for the video.
Neurodivergent queer here, and same.
when being a bloodthirsty self serving psychopath who rejoices when they are able to cause other people to starve is the only thing considered "normal" ... i dont think being normal should be rewarded
I'm glad!! 🫶
@@revolutionaryth0t No problem!
All my friends are neurodivergent. NT are boring and live in a state of insane denial. ND are far more interesting and empathetic.
They sure tried to make me normal, the only thing they got was a broken person. One of millions. Just a statistic.
I hear you
right now I'm just fighting for my mental and physical health in a broken, capitalistic, privatized healthcare structure. 🐈⬛
So real. You got this!!!
@@revolutionaryth0t Thanks, finding this video was super relevant to what I've been going through, and have gone through in these systems as a neuro-divergent person. Glad we don't get chained to walls and shocked anymore, but society still has a long way to go. Either way, glad to be a new subscriber, and thanks for talking on these topics.
I have Chronic fatigue, and its the same in Auatralia. Disability services traumatize the disabled here
when i think of average, i usually think of it in terms of the large range of values that are taken from a sample size and used to calculate a convenient number as a benchmark or reference point. Depending on the size of the values within the sample size, the average will either go up or down.
what does average even mean when you've removed 99% of the human species out of the calculation? lol. its like in eurocentric media, where the only lifestyles displayed as "the normal/average experience" are actually only what the well off in the culture get to experience, and the other 99% of the population is getting murdered with labor induced starvation while being told they are too lazy to deserve to be alive. they never even acknowledge that the other people are human or have lifestyles or cultures. those with wealth are the only ones allowed to be considered human enough to deserve agency over their quality of life.
I usually like to refer to the usual saying, "Why be sane when you can be insane?"
Stumbled upon your Channel from the Anastasia video? I think it was. Subscribed and hope you take off!
Thank you!!
Great to see Empire of Normality gaining some more eyes. This was a great overview and exploration.
(Sidenote: your voice is awesome, just felt I had to mention that)
It's such a good book, more people need to read it! And thank you so much!! :)
The algorithm brought me to you somehow and I ended up binging your video essays all weekend. I can't say what kind of future I want to build towards just yet; I'm still figuring out how to get my fatherless ass to find meaning in life. I do hope that it ends up being a future where future generations don't have to grow up abused like I was. It was cathartic to both learn more about the systems that bind us and also to hear your words of validation. Also, my favorite cat emoji is
Thank you!! 🫶 I hope that future ends up being realized too. Abuse, neglect, trauma, etc. are so terrible for our bodyminds, and the fact that the current systems we live under reward and incentivize abusive behavior really doesn't help
Hello I just wanted to say that I recently discovered your channel and it's been an interesting experience. I'm not a communist or a socialist but I like to hear what others have to say it broadens the mind, I hope that your channel grows and greetings from Australia.
you can be a capitalist and not believe in consolidation or rich people existing, since both of those things prevent economic growth as long as they are allowed to exist..
@@saturationstation1446 If you are opposed to those things, then the redistributed wealth has to go somewhere. Is it used for the benefit of society? I still have a lot to learn, but this sounds like China's hybrid system. The capitalist part provides the incentive to work, innovation from competition, and is attractive to foreign investment. Meanwhile, the socialist part provides the sensible regulation, planning, and social benefit of sharing, areas where unbridled capitalism falls short. Win win. (Again, I have a lot to learn. I'm just an enthusiastic nobody.)
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Innovation doesn't come from competition. What is cheaper, doing research and reformulating the processes and sectors of your production to provide products in greater quality and quantity, or allying with some ofthe competing businesses to pay some saboteurs to sink the other competing businesses?
Innovation comes from demands from the masses. If the masses have power to demand change, either they will invent the innovations they need by themselves, or the elites will have to make concessions and invest in _some_ innovation, which most likely will still be only applicable to a restricted group of people.
Edit: Also, the incentive to work isn't inherent to Capitalism. Actually, Capitalism incentivizes people to trick others into doing work for them, which is basically what the capitalist elites do. The fundamental incentive to work comes from the need of work to create the things we need to survive. Capitalism is just one way of organizing who works with what. It's what we call "mode of production". Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism are modes of production; all of them incentivize people to work, that work is just distributed differently among people.
@@saturationstation1446 To be honest mate I do think that capitalism and socialism can be compatible but I also think that it's got to be in the hands of people that have the interest of the people, our world and animals at heart. Maybe I'm just naive but if a tool can be used for good and for everyone then maybe we should use it for the betterment of our planet and for all of mankind. I'll have to ponder it in detail and perhaps there are some books that offer knowledge on the matter. There are times when I think that we are stuck in a perpetual cycle, is there anyway to break this cycle? My dad thinks that a proper socialist society is the way to go, he also claims that true communism has never been achieved. I'm even more skeptical about that, I love my dad and his heart in the right place but I'm not sure what to make of it. I've heard arguments for both sides and I've spoken to people that are for capitalism and for socialism. But perhaps balance is the way to go, most people follow popular trends or buy stuff they don't need. I prefer to be my own man and buy what I need and not waste my money on frivolous things. I'll treat myself to a rare opera by Henry Purcell or perhaps a historical book writing thousands of years ago by a Greek or Roman philosopher. My interest in accumulating knowledge and I wish to know what came before I was born and know more about history, mythology, classical literature, classical art, old movies from the 1920s, 30s , 40s and so one. There's an entire world to explore both in terms of history, culture and mythology. I do hope that one day we can all move forward together for all of mankind and for this world that we call home, anyway I wish you a good day.
Thank you!!
I needed to hear this today. Thank you, comrade.
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I'm autistic, or, whatever term they have for us these days.
I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be normal lately, so stumbling across this was a fun surprise.
Of course, as I'm sure you can relate, I've been very obviously different than everyobe around me all my life. I've grown up with the enforced reality that this world simply was not made for me, and that it is my duty to find a way to work within it.
Of course, being in my early twenties I also grew up surrounded by messages of acceptance and tolerance. I had been told that no matter what, I was special and unique and that was fine.
Problem being, those messages coincided with relentless attempts to cordon me off, seperate me from the other children both physically and metaphorically in spec ed classrooms and so-called 'safe spaces' (not so safe when the boundaries are drawn by those that have power over you...)
I really appreciate this video, because for all the people that have told me - often in the same breath - that I'm perfectly acceptably normal and utterly incapable of fitting in without help, it's nice that someone seems to understand the world that seems to be so afraid of my existence.
If that's what's normal, I'm not. hopefully, never will be.
Not sure what this means but everyone else has one, so 🐈⬛
Looking forward to binging the rest of your stuff
I wouldn’t say uniqueness considering it’s common among audhd bipolar disorder people, how drugs and alcohol affects them and their communities as a way to escape, a future where there wouldn’t be a major necessity to escape reality but have a solid foundation where regular life can be more enjoyable, a proletarian with more time for family, friends, where work is fair and for a purpose. Equality for everyone and if drugs can’t go away entirely so quickly, a way to properly distribute safe and regulated substances and medical treatment for rehabilitation and overdoses should be considered.
I love this! A future where people don't need to dissociate from the horrors of daily life by using drugs and alcohol because life is already enjoyable enough on its own is totally a future worth fighting for!!
I remember just recently coming to the realization that people unironically using the word "normal" is a massive red flag.
It really is!
I’m so glad you’re setting up a P-n account (leaving out the full name, as YT often doesn’t take kindly to comments that explicitly mention it). I never like to put pressure on a creator for specific perks, because I feel being a patron is like leaving a tip rather than paying for special treatment. If you remind us of new videos being posted, that’s good enough for me. You’d be surprised how many big creators rarely bother to do even that. One of the creators I follow does a weekly patron call. That might be cool. Names in the credits are cool, too.
ofc my uniqly deranged brain read your comment as ver excited abt setting a pr0n acc
@@_inaboxME TOO I WAS GOING TO REPLY THE EXACT SAME THING
Ooh okay good to know, thanks!!
@@_inabox Omg literally same lol
I just subscribed this morning. Why does it feel like i’ve been watching you for ages?
Banger video, you beought the notes, citations, and examples ✨️
Thank you!!
I have a creepy smile as my default facial expression. It got me into some fights back when I was a teenager. And lost me some dates. :(
when was kid id have a "snicker" randomly, and they thught it was me thinkign doing somethign bad and to stop, which i thught was funny and woudl ever increase the snicker.
Thank you for making a really great video! Normalcy as a concept truly is a method for social control
Thanks! It really is, and one we should all divest from
My weirdness is my strength. It's weird to be compassionate towards oneself. Literally and figuratively. It feels weird to steer one's emotional ship. The more I respect my weird ability to actively empathize with random folks, the more I can breathe a sigh of relief and just observe. There's no need to compete. Being me is the greatest gift I can give.
I love this!!
this made me feel at peace like no other video. it feels like this is what i was looking for :> thank you, genuinely.
I'm glad it resonates!! 🫶
Once we have established an anarchist community with (food production, ofc) an engineering team, medical team, childcare center, and an elementary/high-school education center- then it shouldn't be long until we are broadly accepted by the general public and academia. Of course we'd be turning out fine art just as a byproduct of having all of our needs met, which would provide additional support implicitly- no need for propaganda art.
Empire of Normality is such a fantastic book. Really needs and deserves more exposure so thanks
It's so good! More people need to read it!
I was always the weird kid, then in middle school to high school depression started likely as a result of trying to "kill" my younger self, the me that I had blamed for "letting" trauma happen. Finally I'm starting to heal and even reconnect with a me that I thought was gone, the me that is utterly weird, and boy.... I'm going to really do some great things now that I'm back. I've come to accept that being "normal" was never in the cards for me and I finally feel free
This is the most informative video about politics I've ever seen. Like I didn't expect an entire history of multiple political ideologies when I saw this video title
Thank you!! Lol maybe this is my sign to change the title 😂
It's insane how you have only 4,5k subs... First time I discovered you, I watched your old video about historical inaccuracies in the Anastasia, I don't even know how long ago. Really enjoyed that one. Yesterday the algorithm showed me your new version of it, and it was as amazing, even better! I am really not a fan of long videos, basically podcasts (excuse me my poor ADHD), but here I am, captivated by this exellent content.
Maybe youtube just doing it's thing, it really doesn't wanna show any provocative content, LGBTQ, Antifa, anticapitalist, you name it
Love your work, eat the rich!
Wow this is such a nice comment, thank you!! And thank you for being here since my very first video! :) I also have ADHD and I try to make my content ADHD-friendly, so it's good to hear that I'm succeeding at that.
Hopefully the CZcams algorithm blesses me soon!
I love this video, thank you so much 💖💖💖
Thank you!!
As a psychology major (and now doubling in sociology, with a minor in Latino/Chicano studies), this is the type of analysis I live for, and have dedicated myself to- also compounded by a discipline known as "liberation psychology" from Latin America, which focuses on community, dialogue, and decoloniality. I've become so disillusioned with the West's conception of psychology and mental illness, as an individualized, dualistic, and idealistic issue, ignorant of material conditions and social forces. It began with interrogating my own workaholic tendencies and where they come from- if anything, that's what set the spark for my radicalization, with books like Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society, and Buddhist philosophy of interconnectivity and compassion compunding it (always been a bit of a philosophy nerd). Nowadays, even though I'm still a workaholic, my motto is "My workaholism is in service of an end to all workaholism. My burnout is in service of an end to all burnout." My aim is to get into grad school eventually, and then into practice AND academia, so that I can contribute to a revolutionized outlook of psychology one day. Rambling aside, great video! You really deserve more views / subs (for sure subbing right now ). I'll be sure to check out that book!
Ooh amazing! I hadn't heard of liberation psychology before, that sounds super interesting and very much aligned with what I discuss in this video so I definitely gotta learn more about it. Best of luck on your journey! Contributing towards the revolutionizing of psychology is a fantastic and important goal!
such a good video and i really needed it. thank you
Thank you!! 🫶
This video reminds me a lot of the Neuro Transmitter’s channel, just calmer and chiller in production.
Saying that not being normal is good sounds like what someone that is "just a little bit weird" would say. Not very found of being singled out
Great video. For me, it's been a body image struggle, since I don't have the body that's considered "normal" for my age. I'm really short and small.
I am working on accepting it though lots of people like to comment on how I don't look like what an average teenager would. Thanks 🐈
nice. love this
Thank you!!
Yo I didn’t know you had a CZcams channel, I watch your TikToks all the time! Fantastic video, it never fails to break my heart how many horrific concepts capitalism has introduced into our society ):
ah thught she was new, so shes allready popular?
Loved seeing the origins of where some of these "norms" come from, it's hilarious and insightful. We just accept that things are the way they are because that's the only way we've known them, but we can create whatever we want
Exactly this!! The way things are isn't the only way things can be, we can totally create something way better!
Amazing work! This one really speaks to me (and not because of that "Brad over here" comment...haha--more the ol' autistic neurodivergence). There were quite a few things (i.e. the curb cut effect) that came up in a couple of UXD courses I took, but without tying that into more radical praxis. So that's super appreciated.
Also appreciate the deeper dive on Thomas Szasz. Having first heard of him from footage of him speaking at the "Citizen's Commission on Human Rights" (co-founded with the Church of Scientology), it was already clear that whatever flashes of insight he had were...limited by lack of a material systemic critique, which led him well off-track. This helped really hash that point out more substantively, though.
So glad the algorithm shoved your channel in my face!
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that! My first video (how to run a country scientifically) actually discusses how UX principles can be used for running large scale systems like literal governments in a way that works for the people, and as a former UXD, I will definitely be making more videos relating UX to radical praxis in the future!
I once heard it said that "normal" was akin to splitting the difference between two extremes and then calling the middle between them that didn't actually exist "average." In other words "average" as often used is often completely misleading at best, in the same way couples don't actually have one and a half kids.
Great video, comrade.
I'd just like to point out that standardization was also important to professionalize mass production. Capitalism used the tools it had at its reach to maximize profit for the bourgeoisie, and to achieve that they needed to professionalize work, overcome the limits of artisanal manufacture. Under Socialism we also seek to professionalize work, but we fight for metrics different from profit and trade.
We can cut off most production costs and profit off of just achieving "good enough" for a reduced group of consumers, or we can spend more resources in producing lasting and widely used structures and tools. We can make one size and shape to satisfy just enough people to profit, or we can adapt our production methods to include more people and develop our society at a faster rate. Standardization of methods of research and production is good, it allows us to escape our individual limitations and better study and communicate the needs of work in different sectors.
Standardization creates predictability, which is necessary when articulating millions of people to work towards a common goal. The professionalization of political work, actually, is even a major subject of Lenin's contributions to revolutionary theory and practice. Standardization can be developed to include outliers. What is bad, though, is enforcing the means of class domination. Racism, sexism, ableism, eugenics, are means of class domination, they are ideological devices to justify differences of access to the value produced by work, to justify differences of power.
As a marxist-leninist with Autism and O.C.D., I used to face a lingering existential question on my mind. _"If a person has no way of working on any field, materialistically talking, what can their contribution be to the Revolution and to Socialism? What is the material advantage, to the wider working class, of including them in the system?"._ On this video you offered to me a satisfying answer.
The disabled, neurodivergent, and otherwise challenged people are the people who evidence the extreme limitations of our society. We evidence the limits of current work conditions, the limits of current living conditions, the limits of current technologies, the limits of the current society in further abolishing the oppressions of class and abolishing scarcity. In this sense, we are a vanguard within the vanguard, one which advances the interests of all workers through being the first to experiment with and denounce the limits of our society, like scouts in a battlefield. (Notice that in no way do I mean that our tasks are solely that. I mean that, politically, we are in an advantageous position to understand and express those matters.). This further supports the demands that I have been expressing to the "progressive" members of a "commission for inclusion" in my university. The best adaptation that we can get is having the power to develop our own adaptations, and that kind of autonomy is synonymous with power to the people, with class independence, and is achieved through the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. No wonder most of the comrades in my organization are neurodivergent. Thank you, comrade.
33:00 - _"You do not just fight against something and aim to destroy the existing structures with no plan on how to replace them. You need to envision a better world and fight for that world."._
That, comrade, is very advanced political thought. _"Concerning the Question of the Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists"_ (1923), _"The Foundations of Leninism"_ Chapter VII (1924).
Thank you so much comrade!! Totally agree that some degree of measurement and standardization is good and necessary, that's where things like design standards and user research come in too. Standardization and measurement of production in a system without class domination would be actually helpful for ensuring that everyone has their material needs met, whereas under capitalism it often acts as another means of oppressing the working class.
I love your idea about disabled, neurodivergent, etc. people being a vanguard within a vanguard and I'm so glad that my video helped you synthesize that thought! "The best adaptation that we can get is having the power to develop our own adaptations, and that kind of autonomy is synonymous with power to the people, with class independence, and is achieved through the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." - also all of this!!
Im not entirely sure about vangaurds but, that seems like a great thing
I'm glad the algorithm has blessed me with this video.
Thank you!! I'm glad too, thanks algorithm.
dont (or super rarly) sub, like , dislike and algerythem shows you more than if you do that.
Became obsessed with your channel after the Anastasia video--could you make a video about your grad school experience? I'm currently a master's student in data science so I'd love to hear about your experience too!
Thank you!! :) Ooh that's a cool idea, I'm just worried that my experience is so niche because very few people even know what human factors and ergonomics is so it might not be very exciting for people? Idk, maybe I'm overthinking it, I like that idea though!!
@@revolutionaryth0t Honestly I didn't even know what ergonomics was until a few days ago (due to a training assessment for my internship), but I think the grad school struggle is something that a lot of people in their 20s-30s can relate to.
Also, in our capitalist system, it seems like the only way to get a decent paying job is to go to grad school and take out MORE student loans, so that could be something to dive into. Not sure how to message privately, but if you need any ideas, hit me up ☺
Very well researched and reasoned! I eagerly await the next essay. I think I will read Empire of Normality. If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker. She talks a lot about the problems with medicalizing neurodivergence and how neurodivergent people can pursue liberation.
It would have been nice if you'd touched more on how psychology adopted the use of statistics to essentially "wear the skin of science". (i.e., They use statistics to give the appearance of science.) It also would have been highly relevant to mention the "replication crisis" in psychology. In short, psychology uses absurdly lax criteria for statistical significance. So, researchers can "game the system", exploiting the math to make it seem like they've discovered an effect where none exists. Roughly speaking, even if the researchers are honest, there's a 1 in 20 chance that a psychology paper is bunk. (That's really all that "p
In a conversation, i said something like if society accommodation were aiding people with the most needs it would be for everyone would have an easier time. Like how there's a small slope next to stairs of building entrances it wasn't always built that way now it's making life easier fir those who need it and when people are just hurt or tiered. Its ok to live in a survivable society i think
Yesss this is basically what the curb cut effect is!
Great video, I agree
Thank you!!
Un-Normal is the new normal! Be Un-Normal!
I've always said there are no "weird" people, only people who are honest with themselves and everyone else.
I wonder if you'd be interested in making these videos a little more scientific by putting in your sources on the screen every time you are paraphrasing a source? Maybe just as text in the corner or something? It would be great to be able to discern what your own thinking and argumentation is and what exactly is taken from a source! As a historian, I think such a simple move really elevates the quality and trustworthiness of visual essays/opinion pieces, while also low-key teaching people how to work with sources (and to be source-critical when engaging with media!).
That being said, I really enjoyed this video, especially the short history of measure and norm, and I can't wait to see what you do next :)
I love this idea! The reason I didn't think to do that here is because the majority of the historical info after the intro and chapter 1 is from Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality and a little bit from Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World, but I can imagine that for people who are interested in the topics I talk about and want to research them more, it'd be helpful to know exactly which source to go to. In addition to everything else you mentioned, of course.
Thank you!! :)
Great video! I think commenting on that judgemental guy's appearance was a bit much, and I know you said it was for him and no one else but you did comment on those traits as being 👎
I've always encouraged people to be themselves and have been very critical of the concept of normality so it's really cool to find out where this concept that's become so engrained in many societies had origins in!
As a poor mad disabled bodymind, i guess given the time of that book of eminence, I would've been categorised as an aboriginal australian, weirdo who doesn't quite identify as human for a variety of reasons and has a weird sexuality and gender identity, it definitely makes me want to strive for a world where people can be as they are without fear. I also dream of a stateless, moneyless, classless society. I think most concisely, I dream of the end of oppression in its many forms.
It's really nice to see this video because it made me feel less alone, even if I do have a few friends who share these thoughts.
Since we have similar aspirations, we share a struggle! So I hope that both of us will be able to make things better in our own ways 😊
normal (adj.)
c. 1500, "typical, common;" 1640s, in geometry, "standing at a right angle, perpendicular," from Late Latin normalis "in conformity with rule, normal," in classical Latin "made according to a carpenter's square," from norma "rule, pattern," literally "carpenter's square," a word of unknown origin (see norm). Meaning "conforming to common standards or established order or usage, regular, usual" is attested from 1828 but probably is older than the record [Barnhart].
Meaning "heterosexual" is by 1914. As a noun meaning "usual state or condition," from 1890 (in geometry as "a perpendicular" from 1727). Sense of "a normal person or thing" is attested by 1894. Normal school "training college for teachers" (1835) is a translation of French école normale (1794), a creation of the French Republic; the notion is of "serving to set a standard." The U.S. city of Normal, Illinois, was named 1857 for the normal school established there.
chrion last "golden web videos" say its why freemasonic elites want things "fair and square" and we have "common core, commonwealth" eta. its all about doing things "right" and square, and you know what they say about "someone who is a square /sqare head"?
I wanna fight for a world where everyone can be accepted
Based on so many levels. You are amazing. Such a good video.
Thank you!! 🫶
Queer Liberation!! Self Determination!! Bodily Autonomy!! Human Rights!! Cat Emojis!! 😽✌️💛
Some of the best things!!
Thank u algorithm this is one of those videos that i feel like, "if people saw this, theyd understand so much more about life". Like akin to vids introducing socialism and collectivism, finally, theres an explanation of normalcy and Cartesian shenanigans!
Thank you!! 🫶
Amazing essay! Really insightful, I'll make sure to check out the rest of your profile. I'd give you some of my own thoughts as a queer, AuDHD guy but you've already spelled out many of them in this video and that'd probably take a while anyway, so: here is my favorite cat emoji instead 🐈 (they're just. they're just sitting here. I love them.)
I host a podcast on the intersection of arts, culture and technology and the urge I have to make a response documentary titled “The NPC epidemic: A Crisis Of Normalcy”
omg i thought the title and thumbnail said immortal and immortality and i was so confused for the first few minutes
One thing good for everyone isn't great for anyone
how are you so underrated youre so smart im so confused
I love you! ;)
I'm glad to have found this channel - this is a very good essay. There's so much information in it that I'm having trouble taking it all in. One topic I'd like to see explored in greater depth is the antipsychiatry movement. I believe you only discuss Szasz here, and you discuss him as a right-winger. I would like very much to know how this narrative fits in with other figures in the movement, such as R.D. Laing and David Cooper. Was the whole thing a manifestation of neoliberal trends?
I grew up in the 70s, and as a teenaged radical, I came across a lot of ideas of this kind. This was the late 70s, and by then, the "leftist" counterculture was in full retreat; the culture generally was soon to discover the joys of Reaganism. I was so abnormal I was completely shocked when Reagan was elected. It had not occurred to me that anyone could possibly take him seriously (which happened again more recently with Trump). I haunted used bookstores, picking up whatever "radical" literature I could find and understand. Sadly that did not include serious marxist analysis, which I assumed would be too authoritarian and too deterministic; anticommunist propaganda had got to me before I could view it critically. So I became an anarchist.
I think the antipsychiatry stuff would fit right in with the ways many anarchists viewed the world in those days, and it fit right in with a lot of other things that were labeled "liberationist," sometimes justifiably, sometimes not. For example, I've always grouped antipsychiatry in my mind with the trend towards "liberating" children's sexuality, which clearly went much too far. (Behind the Bastards recently talked about this.)
Thanks for all this food for thought. Keep up the good work.
Me, a Boeing hitman, raising my eyebrows until you say, "unrelated to anything going on currently"
Oh boy, I live to see another day!
Yo, this is so good! Definitely going to check out your other videos. ❤
Kind of shows how the category of "diverse" becomes a mirror of the category of "normal". Neurodiversity is for everyone, there are no neurotypical people, people who are "normal" are strange for their normality. However, there are people who are better-served by existing social institutions, and these are the neurotypicals, because their brain is capable of working in a way that is facilitated rather than punished. Probably because they are compliant to the demands of capitalism.
I'd fight for a world where I can live within walking distance of a friend and cooking is handled communally.
Yeah like a world that thrives off both community and individualism, instead of its dark cousins, conformity and isolation.
Heheheh that little blue bear so funny
I want to fight for a world where deviation from the "norm" isn't a bad thing. As someone who is neurodivergent, queer, pagan, and marxist I don't fit into societies view of normal so I aspire this goal.
Same!!!
I have decided that I am normal
The algorithm did a good for me today ❤🐈⬛
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I wish condemning the current political and economic system wasn’t seen as off and odd but as a normal part of human discussion.
Also, I live in Lebanon and it’s just sad realizing just how much this myth of normalcy is ingrained in our society, which as a consequence tends to be very racist and homophobic and just suffocating at times... until you meet those few people who accept you for you. That is wonderful feeling. I want everyone to have, at the end of the day, a home.
As for the economic side of things, I tend to notice that a lot of the evil in our society is the product of profit incentives. That is why I envision a better, different world than this one.
Cheers
Normal is easy, you blend in and aren't a challenge, no trouble, bland. Normal is a town in Illinois or a setting on the washing machine. I wish that people would stop trying so hard to convince me that I'm normal while as the same time ostracising me for being strange, bad and wrong- no I'm not "just quirky" I'm legit weird- viva la weird.
I haven't found something new on CZcams in a while that isn't radlib nonsense. Great to see video slop from a genuine leftist perspective from someone new to me. Liked, commented, shared, go in The Deprogram etc
Thank you!! No radlib nonsense allowed on this channel lol 🙅
Your name is awesome, subbed.
Thank you!!
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I've spent a lot of recent time thinking about the difference between me and my friends and social circles and the people who are not as deeply online as we are. I think those are the people who would call themselves "normal".
Because angry cishet Caucasinites yelling at non-cishet Caucasinites for existing and simply wanting to exist freely in the comment sections isn't okay either.
Im studying for stats and i thought this would actually be a breakdown on gaussiana 😭😭
Popping in to say that’s the most bisexual lighting I’ve ever seen
@Thegingerbreadm4n so hot it literally burns
What if Schizophrenia was a catch-all term for people who were being tormented by people using techniques which would have been invisible at the time , but which are becoming increasingly detectable using modern technology ? .
And if people did persecute these-people-we-ostracized , and then interred them when they tried to self-organize , and then sterilized them when they continued to exist , eventually building a persecutorial system which can no longer be disassembled as fast as the ability to detect it can be assembled ? .
The future I want is where food, water, shelter, electricty, communictions, education and free association are given.
A world without borders or nation states.
I want a world where I don't have to perform for other's limited imaginations.
I want Humans to be able to use their infinite potentail without it being parasitized by those who have the most capital.
I don't know how to make cat emojis.....
I want this future too!!
In germany we call this max mustermann
"Like cat shows for humans"
It's easy to get caught in all this and forget; we created these categories. We enforce them. We can change them too but it's just interpretation
I'm honestly not quite sure what world i'm fighting for yet. As i read and research more I'm starting to get a better idea for what world im fighting for. (Book, essay, research paper, etc. recommendations would be greatly appreciated if anyone has any)
I haven't read it yet but Dr. Kristen Ghodsee has a new book called Everyday Utopia, I think that might be basically what you're looking for! Aaron Bastani's Fully Automated Luxury Communism is also a good start for envisioning what kind of future could exist, and it's a pretty quick and easy read.
@@revolutionaryth0t Tysm! i'll definitely be checking those out ^^
This video reminds me of a movie, just google "Falling Down, economically viable" scene.
Your video basically sums up the movie in that "Normalcy" is basically *an arbitrary metric to determine an in-group versus Out-Group bias.*
But what's important about "Normalcy" is that the goal post can shift so that now Michael Douglas's character ironically becomes a victim of the exclusion system that he spent his whole life defending.
But the reason why Michael Douglas is the villain of Falling Down is because, instead of doing what this video poster suggests and fighting for the normalcy of the black guy (and later on a queer couple), Michael Douglas's uses force to improve only his own social position.
If he had done the former then he would have secured his own economic viability as well as those who he considers on "the fringe" of normalcy. But instead the movie turns out to be a tragedy for everyone involved, and incidently becomes less a work of fiction as time progresses.
Great video,
Could you please get rid of that blue light;
How do I retweet this video 😩😩
29:49 our lifestyles are proped up and they also suck. Literally so depressing.
All this “weirdness” talk here … is in fact an unfortunate tendency to do something I have come to call “self-othering”. Our huge culture of weirdness is in fact merely a growing bourgeois social or cultural reaction to more than four decades of steady, changing, worsening, material economic circumstances, in the western capitalist democracies, and those they influence hegemonically.
Don’t get me wrong. I am “weird” too, and spent much of my life feeling that way. But recently, after learning some new things and coming to some new conclusions only in the last decade or so, I realized the importance of refusing to succumb to the temptation to “self-other”. I try now to refuse to define myself as “other” or “weird” by any of even my own, previously thought to be relatively benign (but ultimately in total marginalizing, disempowering and excluding) socially self-conscious, processed identities; I won’t mentally render myself an outsider by selecting from a variety of identities and behaviors and interests those which define an alleged “weird” or “abnormal” essential being to inhabit or perform or whatever, … to live as while living within the very society and culture that raised me and within which I have the same, equal “normal” rights of democracy. Democracy relies on the normal and average. The unique, weird, association of sovereign abnormal aristocracy of abnormal cannot be the basis of democracy. Justice can observe the rights of the weird and be tolerant of them. But democracy ultimately fails when we devolve into our tribes of the unique and the weird. This is the other reason I resist the “weird”. Weird promotes tribe. Tribe promotes hierarchy. Hierarchy destroys democracy.
By succumbing to the commodity fetish impulse of our capitalist bourgeois culture that increasingly insists that one’s identity is one’s essence, and merits persistent and relentless, seemingly never-ending examination and discussion, to the exclusion of almost any other aspect of life, is what I have started to call “self-othering”. And rendering oneself an outsider … or “a lesser” or “different” being … in the unfortunately still hierarchical relentlessly capitalist society we all live in.
Egalitarian social justice for all our “weird” identities is a very worthy pursuit. The only pursuit in fact that makes the living struggle in these exploitative economic relations worth continuing every day. But the notion that strength comes from diversity is flawed and incorrect. Strength comes from unity; finding the common common elements we share and unifying around them. Progress comes from diversity. to maintain my focus on the material and economic class relations by which power and wealth are inherited and maintained. And resist the temptation to succumb to the commodity fetish and the commodification of identity and culture so easy to fall victim to on the internet and social media of our bourgeois consumer society.
The main cultural difference between the ruling class and the rest of us, the working class, is that within the working class we fall victim to the unfortunate impulse to “self-other”. The powerful economic ruling class participate in many of the same sexual activities and have many of the same identities, etc. but do so shamelessly and without the apparent need to endlessly confess their conditions and discuss their feelings and identities, etc. They do not self-other. While I am sure some find themselves emotionally distraught in private from time to time, generally they don’t participate in the commodification of their private identities and instead largely rely upon their economic class identity to define them and thereby resist the temptation to self-other. Within our relentlessly brutal capitalist society they play their strongest card first. In our current circumstances our working class strength comes from our collective common experiences and not those that make us unique and splintered and commodified cultural identity groups.
I love you all. And I wish we would cease this temptation the internet and social media provides to self-other and divide off from our fellow citizens and fellow hard working and exploited members of the laboring class, seeking better material economic lives for ourselves in a society dominated by an extraordinarily wealthy top 1% neoliberal capitalist ruling class oligarchy. The ruling class are just as “weird” as anyone of you persistently self-othering, confessional, identity exploring r/whatever groups here on the internet … believe me. WEIRDER in fact; they tend to write the book on exotic far-from-average human behavior. But they don’t feel the need to confess like this, to be defined by their weirdness, and thus in a way they never admit they feel shame or as I call it, they dont “self-other” themselves in our oppressive society.
Just a few thoughts to ponder on a cloudy Saturday morning.
Yes, what IS normality?
i hate both sides and life is absurd
I AM NORMAL!
THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
Don't call me out like this.
OK I'M NOT GOING CRAZY I'M ACTUALLY RIGHT
I showed this video to a friend and the objection was annoying (despite being "correct"). You claim "there is no such thing as average", when what you (obviously) mean is that the average is not useful or representative of a lot of people since variation/variance is usually large.
As an engineer quite familiar with math I have to object: "there is no such thing as average [person]" is de-facto correct. There is a citation at 3:17, which says that of 4000+ pilots none were average by all 10 measured metrics. This is so, because the probability of person being average by all metrics is a product of probabilities of person being average by every single metric. Ptotal = P1*P2*P3*P4*....*Pn, where Ptotal is the probability of being average by all metrics and Pk, (k = 1...n) is the probability of being average by every single k-th metric. By definition the probability in general is 0
@@shogunkub The average still exists. The average person does not.
@@00Platypus00 Sure. But the topic is not only about large variation, but also about uselessness of the baseless abstract "average".
i was not expacting all this info,
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Im normal
Oof, I really wanted to listen but the sibilant S picked up by your microphone is brutal. Much love anyway ❤
New better microphone coming soon! Which obviously won't fix this video, but should make future ones better!
@@revolutionaryth0t awesome, subbed
@@muteloch2798 Thank you!! Also, this video has closed captions so it could theoretically be watched on mute if you feel compelled but do whatever you want obviously lol
... Is the new normal now being abnormal?