TIPPING POINT – FROM ABNORMAL TO NORMAL

…a tipping point …is the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common.

Large crowds of demonstrators; msm journalists; religious leaders and ‘elites’ of this or that category of opinion makers inveigh consistently and loudly for an end to hostilities in Gaza – with or without any sort of resolution of the causes of the recent outbreak of violence.

London, as shown in a previous post, has witnessed significant demonstrations.

London, the city of diversity…the city which tolerates…perhaps too much.

And other cities as well.

And the rockets continue flights into Israel –flights which were not sufficient to generate any protests at all around the world – when they were the only ordnance events going on in the region.
You gotta wonder – really – Why is it ok for Israel to be hit…and why is it not ok for Israel to hit the hitters?

And then there was a program the other night on TV – some sort of awards program – called, we think, golden globe or some such as that…
We did not see it…

But apparently it was a performance laced with four-letter obscenities which would have done a young Marine proud.

Major US cities announce defiance of immigration laws.

Major cities defy law and marry members of the same sex.

Mainline churches never pray for victory for American troops abroad – only for peace.

Rock concerts are attended by crowds of people which are – shall I say – significantly different from what you would encounter in the light of day – although I understand that sometimes crowds of them do appear in aforesaid light of day.

I suggest that these happenings have at least one common characteristic:

They are examples of events which are more and more common, more and more routine in our perception of what happens in the community and in the world.

Common = routine = normal.

There is a saying: When the abnormal becomes normal, normal becomes abnormal.

Just a thought, but what a thought!!

Making a longer list of abnormals which have become somewhat common would be very easy.

It would also be unnecessary – and it would be depressing.
Sufficeth to say, the abnormal can become normal…

The question is, can the transformation be reversed – or is the slippery slope a slippery slope.

And – what if anything can be done about it.

We suggest that there is still a very strong core in our society which is normal – that this core will last for a long time

But my goodness, the assaults seem to be mounting.

And one has to wonder if remedies are being undertaken – if they can be undertaken.