It's deeply sad that almost wherever we go these days, especially with our impressionable children, we are affronted with crudely sexual language, and mass profanity so omnipresent that one cannot escape it. When I go skiing with our kids, the slopes are filled with teenagers screaming out sexual and depraved epithets (which bring about no sanction from the ski people). Our schools have for the most part given up punishing such behavior (though my kids go to religious schools, where such is indeed punished, and strongly). All in all, this eats and chips away at our souls each day, making us coarser, meaner, and drives our thoughts (and our kids') deep into a filthy gutter. Though we have the freedom to speak this way, we hurt ourselves greatly. - - And you're right, so much of this comes from young men and women who are deeply insecure about themselves, and about what they believe in. They need lifting up, to see that there is something better and more beautiful above where they have placed themselves.
Let us recommit ourselves to a civility in discourse. Our Lord requires no less of us as his people."
Great post, thank you.
I saw a few seconds of "South Park" (which I've never actually seen before, believe it or not), and also some other shows and movies, especially the "comedies", and was thinking "isn't it interesting to see how the 'holy crusade' that 'comedians' like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin embarked upon over a generation ago has finally borne fruit. Now you are very rarely going to see a current comedy entertainment without gutter-language and gutter-behavior being exploited to the minutest detail.
I'm not sure what the answer is, except for enough folks to say "enough" and refuse to pay for it.
IOW, it's not going away anytime soon.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.-- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man Epistle 2:V.