I despise how low class we’ve become. Along with all the other garbage accepted as OK now. Idiocracy.
“If anything, the new taboo is decency.”
And that about sums it up. I have co-workers who use the f and s words in just about every sentence to point of banality.
I could use the language of Shakespeare, but today, these dimwits would not even know what I am talking about.
It’s bad enough, that where I live, and to whom I speak, I have to practice the “Mickey Spillane Rule”, i.e., nothing more than two syllables in each word, or you lose them!
ya know? ya know? ya know? NO I DON’T! Now, either tell me, or shut up!
ya know what im sayin? NO I DON’T!
Lastly, I do not have my ears tuned to the abomination of the English language, actually two, Ebonics and Cajun Pidgin English.
Our public square is debased.
I am not a “prude” and have no problem at all with swear words in war movies or other appropriate places, and no problem at all even with pornography (a matter I leave to individual taste) so long as it is not paraded in the public square and all over the internet like it was free candy at Holloween. There is a time and place for every purpose under heaven, but the mass culture is not the place for such a steady parade of debasing or demeaning material.
Having had my say about all that, two cents worth maybe,...
I want to add that the debasement of our constitutional liberties and the almost complete abrogation or usurpation of our representative system of governance (”you have to pass the bills to find out what’s in them” -— no budget in five years so we can’t even begin to find out where they are spending or stashing all our money -— a steady stream of lies from The Occupant, etc....... just how do American citizens participate in the formulation of public policy and in the decision-making process now?)
I find these recent changes in our civic lives far worse, even, than the offensive language on the boob toob.
So now you have, for absolutely free, not just two...but THREE cents’ worth...of my stellar wisdom.
Don’t squander it all in one place, and
Happy New Year!
In a recent critically acclaimed 700+ page novel by a woman author, the main character, throughout the 16 or so years of the action, communicates with others mainly by saying to them “F*** you!”, while in the meantime becoming an art connoisseur.
Psalm 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:
and to him that ordereth his conversation aright
will I shew the salvation of God.
We met an interesting couple recently while traveling andl the wife & I still correspond.......most anyone would find them charming
Until the guy opens his mouth
He can barely get through any conversation without using G__D***
I can’t stand to hear this profanity .....there’s just no need to do this in polite conversation.....or ever!
He’s an educated man.....but this surely must be a turnoff to others as well
Vulgarity and horrible language are a form of violence and terror. As the author said, even when you stick to clean programming - I love ME tv - you have to it through disgusting commercials.
I work in a factory and my co-workers are mostly intelligent, hard-working people. But. They over-use the same few words as every imaginable part of speech.
I have zero tolerance for bad language at home and keep reminding the kids, if they want to sound stupid, just talk like that.