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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Cory Doctorow

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Tags: normalcy

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I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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About Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.