Normalcy

Youth is taught to venerate and romanticize rebellion, individualism, and the wildly irregular as alternatives to normal living, never looking beyond the image to notice that these approaches almost always fail to meet their stated objectives and impose a secret tax on civilization by requiring others to fund rebuilding of what rebels destroy.

The actual motivation for rebellion is a selfish need for drama and attention, sometimes fueled by mental illness.

Its advocates have never considered that a normal and healthy life is desirable.

What are today's rebels fighting for? Obesity, third-world immigration, ignorance, irrationality, and political victimhood identities. These approaches are burdens on the healthy, perhaps even deliberate passive-aggressive revenge that force the good to divert money and labor for rehabilitation of everything the rebels trample.