What Is Normal? by David Warren

There is a poorly organized force, that opposes the latest “woke” ideology in America and the West. I use the term “ideology” to stress the abnormal.

One of the features of modern life is what it does to language. For the past century, at least, we have (collectively) made ourselves the victims of various schemes to introduce new or to alter old meanings of words, in order to revise “conventional” ways of thinking.

By now, much of our thinking lies “outside the box,” or so we say. It is a curious expression, consciously intended by its users as a cliche, to consciously overcome cliches of thinking. …