There is no such thing in life as normal

What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience (see below). It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

[...] extremes — whether good or bad — don't fit into society's definition of normality

Just because we become accustomed, just because it becomes normal, doesn't mean it's acceptable.

Being normal is boring!

There is no ideal system just as there are no ideal persons, ideal families or ideal cities, we have to get away from ideals.

We are never going back to normal again, because "normal" was already a crisis. What we refer to as "normal" is an extreme system built on exploitation of people and planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order. Some people say that the system is now malfunctioning, but that is not true. The system is doing exactly what it is meant to be doing. If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.

What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical ‘mechanisms.’ There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically ‘normal’ forms of alienation. The ‘normally’ alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the ‘formal’ majority as bad or mad.

Ohne Abweichung von der Norm ist Fortschritt nicht möglich.

Nothing is normal until you get used to it.

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

I don't work at being ordinary.