As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.
If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.
We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.