“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.” SelfStatesPerfectPersonalityCircumstancesOffersNormalWeakExplanationProphetFormulasAnxiousCosmicAcademicResentmentTrappedDefeatedAlienationInactionPassivityLacanDerrida Author:Camille Paglia
“Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.” PeopleChildrenFactsCareResponsibilityCitizensDiseaseNormalFellowsFinalsRateObligationExplanationReportsMortalityEfficientReceivingDevotedInfantAdequateSurgeonsEpidemicsSense Of ResponsibilityFinal WordsInfant Mortality Author:Herbert Hoover
“One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.” TermBirthTasteNormalAnd LoveMythRationalExplanationParanormalIrrationalFacilitate Author:Mario Bunge
“If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.” IfsWayDoeWould BeChurchCasesFeetDisciplineDemandNormalSolutionsIntelligentRaisesComplexesExplanationDesignerClassroomSubmitOrganismsHypothesisTheologianImmuneIntelligent Design Author:Richard Dawkins
“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.” GrowsNaturalEffortClassTeachBreakStudyCryNormalIllusionAreasCriticalAfrican AmericanExplanationAcademicWorking ClassExaminationBreak ThroughWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.” ThinkingWorldKindDifferentDreamTogetherFeltRealizingSawsOur LivesMysteryAdventureFitNormalUniqueAngelExplanationHuntingNeverthelessAbnormalMartians Book:The Solitaire Mystery Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. "I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.” IfsThinkingWantTryingMeanSaidRunningJobsNiceInformationTheoryNormalAdvantagePoliceCome UpMonstersExplanationCall MeDetectivesHomicideStabbing Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5 Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5