Exceptionalism as normalcy (#1068)

The best is yet to come. I am done hearing about how urbane and sophisticated we are at times and for most of the other times we are brutish and cynical. I bring up the concept of exceptionalism as a normalcy and not as a fleeting accomplishment. The requirement for exceptionalism is in a very simple definition, to be unique. My hypothesis is that unique can and should be normal. We all live in a reality of having a baseline or foundation from which we build our lives. For most, going below the baseline or foundation is fundamentally absurd and is rarely seen as an option for improvement. The problem, as I see it, is that most all of us set the bar so low in our lives so that we rarely do go below it, thus satisfying our primal need to feeling and thinking competently. However, establishing such a low starting point, we rarely do achieve a unique outcome in our day to day interactions. That unique is considered to be not normal is an affront to me and my way of thinking. We are human beings, the greatest forms of data gatherers and analytic conception processors known to our history of living beings. It is unimaginable to me that we would establish such low standards for ourselves when we are capable of greater standards, as in unique standards. The measurements we use to reflect our individual and group complexities are immature and insulative to the real dynamic of our possibilities. We define each other through artificial comparisons of physical make-up and expertise of unequally shared knowledge. In other words, we game the system of evaluation in order to achieve temporary benefits for some, at the expense to the many, which is antithetical to the highest honorable principles we all should share toward exceptionalism. Being exceptional is in all truthfulness, unique, and that normalcy should be all of our baselines.