It isn't normal.
There's a Great Reckoning coming.
Yes indeed there is. Have you read the book by that name? It’s on my shelf, heavily underlined and asterisked. Time to give it another reread.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Reckoning-Protecting-Depression/dp/0671885286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340546491&sr=1-1&keywords=the+great+reckoning