A need for the absolute

In May 2019 , Vogue organized a new edition of its yearly awaited event : The Met Gala, and the theme was : Camp : Notes on fashion. 

The event that year came in full extravaganza in terms of fashion and clothing , more than you ever think,  which seems about right, seeing the key word in the theme's title : CAMP . The word camp goes  way back to the start of the 20th century, however it was first defined by Susan Sontag on her formative essay in 1964 : Notes on camp , in which she defined camp as :

 “The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” 

Therefore , it means an extreme, no room for being average or for nuance, it's an absolute extravagance, a full  show of riches, diamonds , golds , extremely big dresses and garments , to a point where it can turn into a caricature. 

This little term is very telling about the current situation of  lots of aspects of our human nature, we're gradually lacking nuance at an alarming rate , asking for room for some spectrum seems like a whole lot to ask , you're either this or that , there is no in between. 

Nuance is fun, it's comforting, it's normal. Leading an average life with an average lifestyle is just good enough and just fine, normalcy is the most abundant concept around us , and yet somehow we act like it's not fine. 

We are losing nuance in how we approach our feelings as well, we're having a hard time accepting that it is normal to swing between the extremes and not just chase an unrealistic happiness, or settle for a state of damnation. It's like our brains refuse to be tickled by anything other than what is extremely polarizing, we have a hard time labeling anything without using the most polarizing adjectives : very , extremely , absolutely ...

A basic carrer is not enough , a basic lifestyle is not enough , meal , outfit , physical aspect... We shunned any possibility for being average and basic, and unfairly attached this shame label to it, we indulge ridiculousness over normalcy, we have this deep urge to attach drama to any concept no matter how simple it is, and we try our best to add glitter and pizzazz to everything, seeing how much our brains are programmed to only pay attention at shock factors . 

We were born normal with our fair part of averageness and normalcy , we should embrace that, and stop fighting to bring anything into the extreme, just let things take their right value, and also enjoy the little things, they make the biggest difference.