America’s Obsession with ‘Normal’
Returning to normal has always been a retreat from progress
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6 min readMar 13, 2022
America has had an unhealthy attitude toward “normal” for over 100 years. Coming out of WWI, Americans were weary of war and everything else that marked the Wilson Administration. They just wanted to get back to normal. Warren Harding went so far as to use the word in his “Return to Normalcy” campaign…
