I can't tell you how much I dislike the term, "the new normal". It's used a lot these days given the situation that we're going through around the world. I've been tempted to comment on that, but if you don't express a certain opinion on that subject, you can get canceled. Only certain opinions are allowed to be expressed on that particular topic. Let me just say that the new normal is not normal at all. It's a paradigm shift. It's a change in the way our lives will be in the future, if we accept it.
When
it comes to the current situation with the virus, it's become political.
Our political climate in the United States has become increasingly more
divided in the last 20 years. Therefore, we're not even having
discussions. We're having arguments. It gets to the point where some
people's opinions are so delicate that they don't even want to have a
discussion with somebody who doesn't agree with them. Sadly, this is
being cultivated by the media and the politicians themselves. It's
basically a divide and conquer tactic, although some people don't
realize what's really going on.
It's promoted by our media, certain commercials and our entertainment. Some of it's subtle
and some of it's not very subtle at all. Think of it this way. You have
a basic understanding of the way the world works. You know what's right
and wrong. You've had your life experiences. It's
not that you know everything, but there are certain fundamentals,
certain truths that you know are real. You're being told by the media
and through other entertainment that you are wrong. They repeat the
narrative over and over again.
Let's call it
what it is. It's gas lighting. They come at you with a slick
presentation, telling you that what's down is up and what's up is down.
If you don't see it the way they see it, you must be wrong. You know in
your heart and in you're very being that you're not wrong, but you're
being inundated. They call this gas lighting, and there's more of that
going on in the world today. Do you give up on your basic principles and
go along to get along? Then what? When they change what's supposed to
be true tomorrow, do you just abandon what you were told was true
yesterday and go along to get along?
I'm not
even going to name a specific topic here, because that's not the point.
If I name a topic, people are going to pick their sides. That's just the
way the game is played. All that I'm saying is what we're going through
in the world today is something completely different. They may call it
the new normal, but it isn't normal at all. Some people see what is
happening and speak up. Others see it too, but they don't want to say
anything.
Others are going along either through sheer ignorance, fear or because
it makes them feel a sense of security..
It's
not about letting some talking head, some news report, some movie or
whatever bend your opinion to what they want you to think. It's not
about being gas lit into doubting your very core beliefs. It's about
trusting in yourself. Trusting your own opinions and your own ideology.
Not being so rigid that you can't change your mind when given compelling
evidence that points to other possibilities, but not just going along
with the herd mentality.
If people don't wake up
to what's really going on in the world today and start thinking for
themselves, the world we live in tomorrow won't be recognizable. Is it
such crazy thought? Conspiratorial? You might think so, but sit back and
watch and see what happens if people just keep going along to get
along.
