Is Normal "A Thing?"

Listening to a media largely obsessed with the abnormal and aberrations one might doubt that there is such a thing as normal - in statistical terms and in terms of the apparent intentions of biology. There are practically no forums in which it is stated what normal is, or where it is confirmed or celebrated. The human mind needs a conception of the normal in order to understand properly the nature of what diverges from that norm and to make sane judgements about such things. It cannot function in a vacuum with no parameters. The intellect, in that sense, is spatial and needs landmarks.