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In this Political Season, Why Cursing Matters
Editor’s Note: Just when you thought you had heard everything possible blamed on George W. Bush, comes this little piece picked up from the great cloud of contributed content.
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Is it just me, or has the world gone mad for expletives? I have never heard so many being used in everyday language as are being spewed today. Everyday people are letting themselves speak like sailors whenever and wherever they feel like it. Is it a sign of the times? Or, am I just more sensitive as I grow older?
You see “colorful” language all over the Net. You hear it on TV and in almost every movie. Friends that you never thought would dream of overusing foul language are doing so at an alarming rate. What is the urge that is driving these people? F-bombs abound like they are a mandatory necessity for proving one’s bravado and toughness. Is it the economy? Maybe so. All I know is, we live in a cursing world now.
You might think I’m a little on the prudish side, but I am not a church-goer, or some lilly-white namby-pamby. Expletive-riddled dialog abounds on every street corner, in every coffee house, in the work place, at home, in every bar (well, I suppose that’s no surprise), in many public cell phone calls, on so many blogs, forums and in emails, your favorite social network and plenty of other places too numerous to mention. It’s almost like you are a pariah if you don’t curse. What the HECK is going on here?
Are we all foul-mouthed wannabes yearning to be free? I think the overuse of expletives not only demeans civilization, but the more you use them, the more you dilute what you are trying to communicate. Sure, they can create shock value, but after using so many, the effective shock dissipates.
Is this curse-at-any-cost world we live in a sign of these troubled economic times where the lack of jobs, homes and money has turned us all into angry downtrodden people? After all, it is The Great Recession, and many of us don’t know how we’re going to be able to earn enough income to sustain ourselves and our families. The fact that we, as a nation, find ourselves in 2 losing and fatiguing money-draining wars must also be taking its toll. The death and maiming of our Troops, as well as those poor souls in the host countries, is absolutely unimaginable and unacceptable. The overall national and global situations we find ourselves in are incredibly demoralizing, to be sure, but is that a license for letting-fly with any and all foul language that comes to mind? Does overall fear and depression give way to this style of communication? Do “the rich get richer as the poor get poorer” realities we face have something to do with it? How about the fact that our taxes are paying to bail out the crooks who caused our economic meltdown while they continue to conduct business as usual? I don’t really have an answer. I’m merely speculating on what the underlying root causes for this trend may be, that’s all.
Now, let me briefly discuss how the First Amendment works. I do not know of any right we Americans possess that is more important and more powerful than the Freedom of Speech. We all deserve to be able to speak our minds at anytime and using any language that we see fit. The inalienable right to have your say is more vital to democracy than any other single right we have. But, when one insists on speaking their peace with a seemingly endless stream of gutter language, well, the message can easily get lost in a sea of filth.
Now, for the kicker: I find MYSELF cussing more than ever before, too. So, what’s my excuse? I prefer to blame it all on George W. Bush!
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I’m Voting Republican – You’ll Get What You Deserve
I’m Voting Republican! You’ll get what you deserve. The movie was written and directed by Charlie Steak and produced by SyntheticHuman Pictures. Everyone worked on the film for free. Contributions from individuals paid for most of the expenses. [ fun funny comedy joke jokes satire humor Political parody comedians ]
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Cool! The Conservative Blog world things we need to see what is out there in the way if (mis)information. And What do you think of your “Hope and Change now? Trillions in debt and you are about to lose the best health care in the world… Oh, and you are about to be attacked by forces based in Afghanistan since the Prez prefers to fight here rather than there.