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Abnormalize The Status Quo<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If we\u2019d been living in a healthy society and then suddenly had this society\u2019s sick, insane status quo thrust upon us by powerful people, we\u2019d have all been out in the streets making life very hard for those powerful people in an instant.<\/p>\n

We are in the same situation now. We are having a wildly insane status quo thrust upon us by the powerful and for the benefit of the powerful. Only difference is we\u2019re not all out in the streets, and instead of thrusting this horrible situation upon us suddenly, they\u2019ve been doing it this entire time.<\/p>\n

Which is precisely why we\u2019re not out in the streets. We were born into this mess, so we assume it\u2019s normal and that things are supposed to be this way. But it isn\u2019t, and they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

What is normal is health. Health is the normal default condition. If you wake up with a fever and stabbing pain in your abdomen you don\u2019t say \u201cAh well I guess that\u2019s normal now, you can\u2019t expect to just not have a fever and stabbing abdominal pain,\u201d you recognize that there\u2019s an urgent problem and you take action to fix it.<\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019d been sick your entire life, you would understand that your situation is not normal. You would understand that the basic default condition is health, but some dysfunction in your specific system has deprived you of that normal state of being.<\/p>\n

In order for us to begin pushing back on the dysfunction of our current system, we need to begin looking at it in the same way. We need to clearly come to see how spectacularly divergent it is from the basic default condition of health. How sick it is. How abnormal it is.<\/p>\n

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Abnormalize The Status Quo If we\u2019d been living in a healthy society and then suddenly had this society\u2019s sick, insane status quo thrust upon us by powerful people, we\u2019d have all been out in the streets making life very hard for those powerful people in an instant. We are in the same situation now. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,2384,5210,643,1302],"class_list":["post-54728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-elite","tag-normalcy-bias","tag-power","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54729,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728\/revisions\/54729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}