Words, just words

Why can't we just lighten up as a nation and society?

Everyone curses, but it's one of the big taboos on the public airwaves or in a public forum. People get all huffy and offended--"oh my god, he said the f-word on the air! I can't fucking believe he did that!"(ooops...) Or, "oh, that was just uncalled for, especially with all these children around." Give me a break. What with the influence and propensity of so-called profanity in today's world, you'd think that every child's first words would be something like "Put me down, dammit!", or, "Shit, that floor really hurt! why'd you let go of my hands when I was walking for the first time?"

It would really help people air their feelings about issues and people, like Snoop Dog did here. Storytelling would also be more authentic, which is something we need more of in this day and age. people curse all the time, so when someone is relating an anecdote about a conversation they had why do they need to censor it. Like this story Sami Rosouli was relating on Democracy Now about pasing through a US checkpoint in iraq:

So the driver suggested to take a side road, which was dirt and unpaved. So a few minutes later, when we were on that road, we were raided by three Humvees, and about twelve servicemen jumped from their vehicles, pointing their rifles at us, asking us to get out. An Arabic translator was there, also translating whatever the soldiers were saying. And I felt like, I’m not in a good position. So I reached out to my American driver license, and I claimed I’m an American. And then the sweet young man looked at me, and he goes -- I don't know if I can say this -- “No sh**!” so and with a big smile. So I tell him, “You betcha.” So he said, “Well, you must be a Minnesotan.” So he called upon his commander to come and check me out and give me sort of clearance. And when they talked to me, he asked me, “What the f-- you're doing here?” I told him, “Well, I’m visiting family, but what you are doing here?” They said, “We are looking for enemies, terrorists. They just killed two of us in Al Taji.” So I replied, “Am I the enemy?” He said, “No, you look good. You can go.”

It's all part of the backwards logic that runs rampant throughout our entertainment consuming self righteous "I'm better than you because you do this and i would never be caught dead doing it--well, i'd never be caught doing it, lets leave it at that" society:

It's legal to swear, but you'll get fined if you do it over the public airwaves.

It's legal to have sex, but you'll be seriously fined if you broadcast sex on public airwaves (but you can walk into a local smut store and buy a DVD of just about anything you want to watch--except anything involving shit--who came up with that boundary? "Anything goes, but if you start flinging crap, we'll confiscate all the tapes and shut down the studio...", and if you don't want to leave the house and are tired of ranty blogs like this one, there's always a web browser and search engine--not that I would know anything about any of that...)

It's illegal to commit arson, kidnap someone, commit armed robbery, commit murder, steal a car, and any number of other things but those types of acts are all over the freakin TV every night,

And if that's not enough, during the day you can flip on the tube and watch any number of talk shows bring on the perpetrators of any of the aforementioned acts and glorify them. Maybe not intentionally, but to some people watching, the fact that they're ON TV is enough to make them think that going out and doing something like that just to get on TV might actually be worth it.
Of course, this delves into the seriously sick and self cannibalistic tendency that we have as a nation of voyeuristic sickos, which is not really what I started out wanting to write about this time.

We love to rant and rave and about our oral fortitude while we cause more ill will and harm toward people throughout the world in the past 100 years than the world did as a whole for 500 years prior to that.

We froth at the mouth about family values while the number of broken families and single parent households is astronomical in this country.

The contradictory nature of us is astounding:

We tout our ability to bring Democracy to any corner of the globe, but here at home the way things are run doesn't look like the Democracy envisioned by the Revolutionaries (hmmm, revolutionary? as in... Revolutionary Guard? NAHHHHH...) who fought a long and brutal war to earn independence from Great Britain.

We stump for free and open electoral processes throughout the world and stoop to any depth to assure the desired outcome of elections here at home.

I could go on, but you get the picture. I'm not sure where this conflicted nature of ours as a nation and society came from, but I am pretty sure that if left unchecked it will only mean our demise in a less than pleasant way.

"I don't know which species is worse, Burke. You don't see them fucking one another over for a profit margin, do you?"

-Lt. Ellen Ripley, Aliens