When the Abnormal Becomes Normal, Can a Society Survive?
Mark Lewis
Every society in human history has had its freaks, weirdos, perverts, criminally insane, noncompos mentis, i.e., a segment of society considered by the vast majority of that citizenry as “abnormal,” not fitting in with the average, accepted morality and norms of that culture. It has happened everywhere. Such human riffraff, rabble, and garbage simply cannot be totally obliterated from the earth.
But successful societies have recognized that, to be successful, this freakish, perverted element of society must not become too large or influential, or they will disrupt the whole fabric and moral foundation upon which that society is built and must operate, and that chaos, disharmony, and irredeemable discord will result if the rabble gets too strong. A society simply cannot exist in licentious anarchy. Recognized, agreed-upon standards must exist for a civilized society to function effectively. For lack of a better word, we call it “normality.”
Thus, down through human history, prosperous nations and societies have been able to marginalize the freaks and perverts, keep them on the fringes, in cages, in closets, wherever necessary, so that their destructive degeneracy will not spread and take over as the normal basis of human transactions in that civilization. You don't let “freakdom” become “normal.” The Roman Praetorian Guard knew this and killed the perverted freaks Caligula and Nero before they could damage the whole Roman Empire too severely. A certain amount of insanity is unavoidable, but an intelligent, healthy, moral society recognizes that loonies and perverts can disrupt societal norms. Thus, the morally healthy will marginalize these deviants to the outskirts of that society and let them play with each other so they can’t do the rest of the civilization much harm. It has to be this way. Personal destructive behavior must not become the norm.
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