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There is no civility anymore, no decorum, no standard of public decency. God knows I cuss like a starving crack whore, but I give people a fucking choice if they want to hear it or not. What has happened to consideration for others, to giving a shit about one’s fellow man, to putting anything at all above one’s own self-serving, puerile wants? In the 60’s and 70’s, eons before most of the assholes who think they are running the world now were even blown wads busting through a ripped condom on the way to their fifteen-year-old mothers’ uteri, my parents could stare down at me or my brother and stop our unapproved behavior cold. We did NOT run in the grocery store or cannonball into the public swimming pool or dare to talk back to an adult in charge without the certainty of a soul-shrinking glare-of-doom all the way home and an asswhooping when we got there. With a belt. And we didn’t fucking sue our parents or call DFACS either. We knew the consequences ahead of time, and we were prepared to suffer them if we screwed up.
The problem is that now, even for children who need to learn boundaries, there are no consequences for wrong behavior and plenty of repercussions for any and every action that might possibly maybe somehow perhaps offend a goddamned dust mite. Prejudice sucks ancient elephant balls, so my eyeballs spend a lot of time bugged out in reaction to the bullshit I’ve heard spill out of embryonic fucktards’ feed slots: gay slurs, racial hatred, religious intolerance. To assert that any other human being is less just because he or she exhibits different clothes or skin or speech or standards is the stupidest shit in the world. And, yes, I acknowledge that I am slamming the prejudiced, which is, in effect, prejudicial. The difference is that I don’t like prejudice; I don’t appreciate the hatred and nasty vibes and killing done in the name of what’s right; but I don’t live a delusion that I am in any way better than people who act infantile out of ignorance.
But here is the rub: all people, no matter what, should feel free to express their opinions without fear. Even if those people are prejudiced. They should just proffer those thoughts in a way that allows the opposition to choose not to partake. If you plan to rap misogynystically, don’t beatbox it on Disney Radio. If you simply must declare your hatred for all things Bush, stay off Fox. If you can’t stand bigotry, don’t hand out pamphlets at a "clan" rally. And if you are a bigot, keep it to your fucking self. And that brings me to the shit that ties for first place in the stupidest-in-the-world category. If you get easily offended, don’t go where there might be offensive shit. Like a stand-up comic’s show.
When was the last time a comic made anybody laugh without offending someone? It’s their fricking job. Comedians make fun of people, you idiots who go hear them and then get your panties all in a wad after some wisecrack about drug addicts or trailer park dwellers or Republicans or fat people or gay people or blondes because you are one or more of those, and you think you are more important than anyone else in the universe and deserve to have a ginormous legal settlement to prove it. It isn’t even about hurt feelings or true damages, which is what lawsuits are supposed to represent. No. Greedy people just tend to hunt for an angle, any angle that might be lucrative. Hey! That guy just said something about gay people/Muslims/Southerners/the obese, and everyone laughed, and I think he was directing that at me. With hatred. I think he should write me a big, fat check. No offense to the “weight challenged.”
It is awfully hard to take a stand on any issue in the 21st century without the fear of being labeled anti-this or anti-that. But it isn’t that hard to be civil. Believe what you believe and don’t ram it down anyone’s throat. But be open to other points of view. Teach your children manners. Don’t be hatin’. Laugh if it’s funny. Don’t read profane blogs if you don’t like cussing. Hold the door and let someone else go first. Say, “thank you.” Give love a chance. Quit blaming the world for your freaking problems. And for God’s sake, stop jumping in the goddamned public pool when people are trying to float in peace.
Great "in-your-face" tantrum, Bloggurl.
ReplyDeleteI share your aggravation with humans who are closer in evolutionary time-line to "the missing link" than to the intelligent 21st Century "enlightened few" (what Spiro Agnew once blithely (and oh so smugly) dismissed as an "effete corp of impudent snobs").
Comics, in fact, represent the most cleverly vocal of those citizens who are able to see the forest in spite of the trees trying to obscure it. George Carlin? Richard Pryor? Mort Sahl? These geniuses led (in Carlin's case still leads!) a parade of voices who were (are) "mad as Hell and won't take it any more." And simply twist the ire into amazement at our human folly. Like all of Shakespeare's fools, and of course Mark Twain, these wizards see people for what they are, and they aren't afraid to publicly proclaim it. To people who react with offense when the mirror is illuminated, I'll only say this: get over yourselves.
With regard to people's inability to recognize the role they play in the fabric of community: if I were funny myself (as funny as you are, Bloggurl), I'd be inclined to take a few potshots at examples of the more unevolved segments of our population. My favorite "du jour" are people whose JOB is serving others' needs (waiters, checkers, politicians), but when someone offers a genuine "Thank you!" their disingenuous response is, "No problem." That inexcusable behavior really triggers my wrath. "No problem"? It damn well better NOT be, Tonto, because you're being PAID to play your part in the little dance we're doing. A much better response might be, "I'll take care of it!"