Norms Guide Us and Govern Us

Ben Braddock's graduation from nowhere to nowhere.

“That world is gone. There are no shared norms.”  

So claims Mary Harrington in the piece I worked from in the last post, and there is no doubt, she is correct. From whence come norms? What happened to the ones we had? Where did they go? Can we get norms back? What are the costs of living in a norm-less world? Can we even have a world absent of norms? Wh…