U2 everyday.

What is normal? This is a question that everyone poses but yet no one is able to really able to answer. The last post I wrote about meaning and how our life is essentially revolved in discovering that meaning. Does creation part of being normal or is normal simply a function of discovering the meaning of leading an everyday normal life. There are many layers of being normal- sometimes, being normal is just being part of a larger self and sometimes in that part of being the larger self, we search the meaning. Hence the argument leads us to understand one very simple idea: is trying to fit in to the larger self, the be all and end all of all human discovery.

This means that is succeeding and looking the part of a larger organism a sign of a self fulfilling life and in the process, we have finally realized the final analysis in our life.

There are two simple arguments to the above: in the modern age filled with skepticism, professing some form of dream and myth is really antithetical to leading a normal life. This means that leading a normal life is a like the new antithesis of the above and hence brings about some form of "dystopian pleasure". Think of suburban life and the various trappings of having comfort, time and luxury at your disposal. This means that rather than pursuing your dream as say a rock star or writer is passé and leading life in the fullest while denying the narcisstic and ego-satisfying pleasures of living a dream and leading the regular Joe life is the exact opposite and yet obviously the most pleasurable form of protest against some form of establishment.

"Normality" is not the new "rock star". Normality is simple the rock star of everyday life. We are fatigued and we are being screamed at by various mediums on diverging messages that simply leading a life that is deemed placid and comfortable is an effort almost in the protest of the some form of establishment which aims to turn us to self-seeking fools looking for instant fame and gratification.

In living a normal life, is really seeking meaning in the second order, in other words, it is really denouncing the fact that we will not seek self-pleasuring experiences and aim instead that discovering new meanings that we bring in our everyday life. Normality is commercialized so to speak.

How can we commercialized everyday life, this is done by simply denouncing that all dreams are false, and it is the attack on dreams that make us normal.

And in so doing, leading a normal life fulfills and satisfies our life on two purposes: 1) positive values 2) a rock star life. This means that we are creating new things while remaining part of the social body.

Think about it, this is the utopian dream isn't it- we can live like a gladiator without taking on a fight. Thank you very much.

Think your life as living in a computer game: there is no reset button but you simply keep on winning.

Hence if being normal means taking on a fight without fighting for our positive values and then really what are we fighting for? If discovering meaning in our daily lives while living like a "gladiator" that does not dies, what is our daily life: a "toothless" gladiator.

The day of state of flux become increasingly pronounced and we have to hold on to something. We no longer can dream that dream simply because we believed that our life blast us with so many images and messages. Our life is missing something insofar that disappointment is the order of the day. We do not wish to take on the world and missed out on the worldly pleasures, with that rather than become mindless and headless consumers and wishing that the next iPhone will fall onto our lap, we take on "something"- anything. This something is the assault on the establishment.

We will not bring you down, we will screw you- how do we do that- we will deny that you exist, and you will not permeate our existence. This is our life, normality is mine to keep- you are the asshole and not me. You son of a bitch.