This normalcy appears treated as an indication of mental health and moral righteousness while regarding others with a mixture of pity, disgust and fear.
Consulting history, we can see that the conditions and patterns of human life have changed so much in the past two centuries that it is impossible to speak of any lifestyle available to human beings today as being normal in the natural sense, as being a lifestyle to which we are adapted after uncountable generations. None of the lifestyles available today are anything like the ones for which we were prepared by centuries of natural selection and evolution.
This normalcy held so dear is merely the feeling of normalcy that results from conformity to a standard. The illusion of being surrounded by others behaving the same way, apparently conditioned to the same routines and expectations, is comforting because it reinforces the idea that one is pursuing the right course. If a great many people are said to make the same decisions and live according to the same customs, then these decisions and customs appear to be the right ones.
