The trouble with normal is it always gets worse?

Question

True or false.

I believe it to be true.

The question is the title to a Bruce Cockburn song.

The Trouble With Normal

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage
Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights
What did they think the politics of panic would invite?
Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the 3rd world trying to keep it on its knees
Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea
And the local 3rd world's kept on reservations you don't see
"It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Answer 1

Hadn't heard before. Really like. So true.

Answer 2

I disagree, but the song is good. In actuallity it is the acceptance of the normacies that are pushed upon us is worse, and wrong. It is not normal, just because a line is drawn to that point does not make it normal. The average today are many of the things going on today in that song but that still is not the norm. Maybe someday we will re-set the scales, balance and bring it to normal once more. If anyone tells me that being unhappy, confused, depressed, fighting, war, theft, lies,etc., is normal I refuse that because I know my life would not be meant for a life to live that way without a fight. Freedom for an instance isnt that why we fight for freedom, because the tyranny surrounds us and we know it is not normal but some sales people with propaganda try to stuff it down your throat and I know I wont palate that at all. I will regurgitate immediately. My mother and father taught me one thing, "We did not bring you into this world to have you abused."
Amen to that note for all humans.

Answer 3

It's not normal that makes things worse, it's greed. Too much greed and not enough courtesy for the fellow man. Too many men with the wrong intentions leading with themselves in mind, not what's best for the country as a whole. It's corruption. This country has let down the blue collar worker for cheaper imports. Yes, we all like to save a buck but it's going to cost us more at the end.

Answer 4

The bottom of the barrel can get pretty deep normally. This must be another one of those cans of worms. If you watch them long enough though they seem to be enjoying themselves. It is not good for a worm to be alone. Being oblivious can be bliss when others normally anticipate the worst of each other. Chaos is normal and utopia would be hellishly boring. How else can we learn the difference? Life is an amusement park with rides for everyone.

Answer 5

Your good, healthy, straight-thinking cynicism is like a breath of fresh, albeit dark, air. Gimme entropy, baby!

Answer 6

kinda puts a damper on "the Golden Mean"

Answer 7

Isn't NORMAL just a setting on the washing machine?

Answer 8

-----False. Over time, normal (average) gets better. For example, we live longer. -----Jim