Who’s normal?

There was a Korean couple who spent hours at the internet cafe (yes, this was way back–2009) trying to raise a virtual child while their real child starved and eventually starved to death.

Errol Morris discovered an American town where people seemed to accidentally shoot themselves in the foot or the hand at an alarming rate, leading to a high occurrence of missing limbs and claim insurance. (A good doc came out of this, by the way.)

And of course there’s the Philippines, where two presidents in succession end up in jail and somehow get a serious medical condition which forces both to be in a hospital.

And of course there’s me, there’s you, there’s everyone around me. Hard to think of anybody who is.

What do we mean when we say normal anyway?

By what or more accurately, whose measure do we use?

Should we use the standards that modern societies accept?

But Oprah’s not normal. She’s a gazillionaire.

Let’s focus here.

Even Kris Aquino might actually have a disorder. Surely, the megalomania is just a symptom of something bigger. {but i still like her}

Ambot.

 

 

 

 

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