I always say to people "Name me one normal person." (They usually can't.) And if they do name one that could qualify: "It's not normal to be normal."
E.g. if you have a set of things which vary in many dimensions (even if each element is no more than a set "distance" from normality), very few elements will belong in the "centre" (normal on all dimensions) and most will belong on a spike (wildly extreme in 1 or 2 dimensions).
It doesn't mean stats are useless. It means you have to know how to interprete them.