Mundaneness doesn't get a fair shake. But then, what does?
Mundaneness has it's time and place. Where would the music of the 60s have been if we hadn't been ready to settle for mundane? And Disco! Disco was all about being mundane!
See?
Mundane gets a bad rap because individually none of us wants to be mundane. Fine, individually you are certainly the cream of the crop, A number 1, the top of the heap.
So how come 72.5% of high school graduates can't read at a 12th grade level? How come we let 34,000 fellow Americans die in alcohol related traffic accidents? How come being part of a mob is preferred to being stalwart and somewhat alone? How come a whole bunch of things?
Maybe it's who we're listening to? Getting good grades is mundane. The two extremes to good grades are being a merit scholar or a flunk out. Not everyone can be a merit scholar. So in that light, being mundane is better than flunking out. But inner city kids and wannabe inner city kids don't see this.
So I'm saying if you can help one person achieve mundaneness instead of flunking out, you're doing a heck of a good thing.
Yours in C+, dreaming of a B-,
Bert H.G. Bananas
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Aren't those of us proud members of the Middle Class mundane?
Eye dont wanna bee mundain, butt eye cunnot hep it.
I think that people try very hard not to be the status quo, never realizing that statistically, they are almost doomed to be. I think that many people circa my age become very unhappy when they realize this. I think of the Somerset Maugham quote: "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."
So give up on that painting/band/novel, son, and get that MBA.
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