Even when not working there's compulsion to do something, to be someone, to increase joy, to decrease suffering, to be alert of all the dangers, to worry about tomorrow, to lament the past, to relate to others somehow. There's no peace to be had as long as we're alive.

The normie way might just be the middle way, the result of negotiation between the extremes of dealing with the human condition. The normie way avoids the extremes of distracting oneself with consooming media and exogenous substances, the extremes of life risking activities resulting in early death, financial ruin or prison, the extremes of hermit lifestyles and the extremes of completely dedicating life to a particular skill. The normie lifestyle offers a balance of all the good and bad things of the extremes.