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This is not fine, and it was not fine then either.

Written by Sean Bonner on his blog.

There’s no question that 2020 is shaping up to be a disaster, and people are understandably asking how long until we get back to normal. But when exactly is this normal” that everyone is talking about? It certainly wasn’t 2019, nor 2016. If you think back to the George W. Bush years following 9/11 and the resulting war on terror’ there was a lot of hoping for a return to normal” then too. The response to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign certainly made it clear that for a lot of people, Bill Clinton’s presidency was far from ideal. That takes us back to 93. Was it normal before then? Under Bush Sr? How about Regan?

Fuck that.

The truth is it’s been a disaster for a long time, we simply forget how much we hated yesterday because of the overwhelming pain of today. So we trick ourselves into reaching for something slightly less terrible, rather than something better. Normal” sucked. Normal” was broken. Normal” was dysfunctional and oppressive.1

Well said, sir.


  1. Sean Bonner, Normal, a blog post posted on 4/9/20.

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