in this context, normie means roughly “someone who earnestly and uncritically believes popular cultural narratives”. at root it’s an epistemic vice of laziness and lack of wisdom in discernment.

there may be explanations for their condition, but the herd have a character defect preventing them from the status of peer in personhood.

at times they might be narrowly pragmatically useful (ex. 19thC “iron law of wages” socialists), but mostly they’re just a hindrance and an obstacle, especially in the long run.

nietzschean friere: the masses are dehumanized, and this situation can only be rectified through humanizing education and material social change. the former without the latter is priestly acommodation. our teacher-students must be mindful to avoid pathogens in the intermediate intercourse, however.