The fight for normalcy: why I have always been attracted to "subcultures"
Close friends in my orbit have heard me talk about this non-stop lately: the fight for normalcy. Let's frame this essay a little bit first: what do I mean by "normalcy"? When I talk about normalcy, I'm talking about things that for the majority of human history were considered normal, regular, necessary parts of the human experience. And while I am well-traveled especially in Latin America, note that I am mostly writing from a US perspective. So when I say the fight for normalcy, there are so many things that can apply to this concept. Whole food nutrition, inter-generational exposure and support, birth and death processes, play-based learning, and the main one: social connectedness and interdependence. I argue that if you live in a big city or even small city or suburb in most industrialized countries, in order to have anything normal, you have to fucking fight for it due to our highly individualistic, racist, sexist, capitalist structures. Want to rely o...
