Richard: At my elementary school, we were taught to be “normal”. To get that point across, our teachers relied on drawings of bedrooms, stadiums, and shopping malls, each labeled with the same question: “What’s wrong with this picture?” I was pretty good in school, but I bombed on exercises like those. My responses were usually like, “Sure, that portrait of George Washington is upside-down, but perhaps that was the artist’s intent.” Or, “Yes, there’s an elephant drinking from a water fountain beside the Chess King, but is that morally wrong–apart from the presence of Chess King?” I…
