tempered balance

on the 13th of this month i was thinking about what it is to be sane or normal. what is degenerate and pathological.
it seemed that two main themes or factors were necessary to define the average/standard/normality: 1. normal is whatever way most people act or think. and 2. normal is whatever largest group(or group with the most enforceable power) of people agree upon. this second one is subjective to what people will actively agree/act upon regardless of what they really think/feel.
what was normal 8,000 years ago is not necessarily true now, so time and possibly evolution are not a consideration to the minds in thought during the time of my observations (thus – my lifetime). though, evolution takes a lot longer to change things, cultural evolution changes much faster whether forwards, backwards, up, or down, or otherwise.
even 50, 25, or 10 years can produce much cultural or social change. the basic minds are still there. latent potential behaviours still exist. bigots, extremists, chauvinists, and revolutionaries remain, albeit dormant but the essence, the foundation is still there. these types of people make up the human “medium.” and they are a pliable malleable medium of humanity. to varying degrees dependent on their layer in or away from the core of the human average.
this majority of human kind heavily influences the area known as conscious thought. which is where culture and philosophy are; where laws and rules come from. where tact and integrity have been honed.
whether positive or negative, right or wrong, detriment or benefit it all is managed by the dynamic created by the majority rule. this is where nonsense enters. this is the madness i imagine many of my kind to have talked about in their passing*. but it is the state of things. the mind is already an abstract-laden/latent device. product of evolution as i believe it to be. some kind of byproduct of survival or necessity or a direct development of device to aid whatever it is that prompted its existence. the mind that is aware and observant, the one that never stops learning or questioning (can’t stop questioning) is a mind folded with abstract istch; tempered between considerable oblivion and planar temptations. this mind goes everywhere known to all others. not isolate, not specific, not static, this type of mind rubs boundaries clear of suit**. it is a naked skin absorbing and sensitive to all rhythms. not coarse, no course. not callous, no callus.
free of purpose and reason and so much thinkings yet bound by physical means**.

*meaning, “of life” of moments but with a touch of allusion to death
**alliteral pun on the word soot but meaning “suit” as in conventions and things worn or that wear on us
***every definition represented in this usage