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To: South40

Nah this started long before Obama. We are just limboing lower and lower in defining normal. Now even in economics they just call it the ‘new normal’ in the workforce.


“Defining deviancy down” was the title of an essay by New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in The American Spectator (vol. 62, no. 1, winter 1993, pp. 17-30). The subtitle was “How We’ve Become Accustomed to Alarming Levels of Crime and Destructive Behavior.”

Abstract: Asserts that the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond levels the community can afford to recognize and that society has been redefining deviancy to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized and accepting as normal behavior that considered abnormal by earlier standards. Redefinition is categorized as altruistic, opportunistic, and normalizing. (SLD)


35 posted on 12/19/2013 1:25:37 PM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: ex-snook

Thanks, meaning that by the early 90s, a large enough percent of the “silent generation and the “greatest” generation had passed so that the sexual revolution of the Boomers had begun to take hold.


44 posted on 12/19/2013 1:55:36 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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