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As the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
“Statistically normal” in the United States has been driven toward the extremes, be it diet, wealth, politics, popular culture, or lifestyles in general.
