The 'New Normal'

This is some silly phrase that I've heard via CNN, and a number of news outlets over the past two months.

Basically, if you tried to ask anyone from the journalistic 'team' to define it....you'd get fifty-plus definitions.

If you went to some politician, he'd give you some five-minute speech about an imaginary fantasy place, where unicorns roam freely, ice cream is freely dispensed to you, and free marijuana was possible (just not the good stuff).

My brother, being an engineer, would first ask you to define the 'old' normal, then suggest that he's seen at least forty versions of normal in his life.  He'd even drag out CB radios, Radio Shack, and pool-hall hamburgers as being part of one single normal.

I think the problem here is that folks try to fixate themselves that there is a normal....when there really isn't such a mythical 'beast'.  Fantasy?  Mostly.

I don't want to disparage folks with this normal chatter, but I don't think I'd get locked into this much.  You might wake up tomorrow to discover a newer-than-new model of normal, and then freak out when the Today Show host suggest that a newer-than-newer version of normal is coming to you in a matter of days.