Dirty Words

Hello Fellow ADULTS. NEWSFLASH: The United States' Federal Communications Commision (FCC) lists SEVEN BANNED WORDS. In the interest of DECENCY, they are: Sh*t, F*ck, C*cksucker, C*nt, Motherf*cker, *sshole and Tw*t. Just thought you all should know. So let's all try our very best to keep things squeaky clean. Thank You.

P.S: I'm just not sure about the following: "Turd," "CodPiece," "Collateral Damage," "Armpit," "Mustard Gas," "Throbbing Manhood," "Snot," "Beef Medallion," "Strontium-90," "Booty," "McCain," "Cucumber," "Dreck," "Dink," "Dork," "Dong," "Dork," "Dookeyshine," "Goddamn," "Queen Elizabeth," "Beaver," "Prince Charles," "Schmuck," "Methyl-isocyinate" "Fartknocker," "BP," "Ronald Reagan," "Poop," "Deepwater Horizon," "Titties," "General Petraeus," "Toxic Waste," "Mound of Venus," "Wee-wee," "Pee-pee," "Poo-poo," "Ca-Ca," "Chernobyl," "Sarah Palin," "Wang," "Wong," "Willie," "Weenie," "Margaret Thatcher," "Bunker Buster," "Mel Gibson," "Gonads," "President," "Barf-bag," "Cops," "Butthole," "Donny Osmond," "Luscious Glory," "Johnson," "Merde," "Country-Western," "Gunshot Wound," "Ponocha," "Televised Violence," "Puke-bucket," "Knockers," "Cooties," "Poontang," and "Englebert Humperdinck."

Some of the above aren't banned, but probably should be.
However, Penis, Screw, Pussy, Snatch, Dick, Testicles, Cock, Vulva, Prick, Balls, Ass, Crap, Fart, Bitch, Fag, Dyke, Nosebleed, Slut and Wanker are all perfectly acceptable.

Last night, and well into the wee hours of the morning, I examined my own motivations. It was probably less of an investigation into why I wrote such an “outrageous,” profanity-laced “essay,” than why I had for so long denied my strong desire to do so. The following conclusions, some obvious, others less so, are listed in less-than-perfect order:

... See More1. I have observed a kind of restlessness, a hankering, a yearning within me. While the nuts and bolts, very grave social and political conditions of life on 2010 Earth do preoccupy me, it would be dishonest to claim that other phenomena escape my rapt attention and profound interest. Continually, constantly and exclusively limiting oneself to posting “respectable,” “orthodox,” “acceptable” links, important as they are, gets downright boring. It would be a lie for me to maintain that the ironies of the “Culture War” aren’t at least equally fascinating. The stark conflicts proliferating within American Society today are based largely in an outdated, two-faced and increasingly irrelevant sense of “morality.” That very “morality” has been historically based on religious systems I personally disdain. Such morality is so fraught with irony and contradiction that it (still) needs to be confronted openly. But outmoded as it is, that “moral imperative” remains extremely powerful. I desired to confront it head-on, despite the fact such morality keeps its grip on me, in much the same way it affects others. As I already observed, it was not easy for me to enunciate such examples of “Obscenity” in the way I did, possibly to be noticed by several hundred people. And why is that? Why the inhibition? Why would I potentially lose sleep over giving “naughtiness” explicit expression? All of those individual epithets, profanities, curses, call them what you will, are ultimately composed of random phonemes. And a “potty-mouth” writer like me merely assembles a series of morphemes that don’t by any means DIRECTLY represent the items and concepts they “stand for.” To a large degree, arbitrariness rules the day.

2. I make no false claim to any real originality of conceptualization. At best, I’ve managed to display a bit of innovative authorship. Think of the Late Great George Carlin and the battle he waged – a truly pioneering struggle that earned him real legal consequences, but also real recognition. Consider the actual hardships experienced by Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, Wendy O. Williams and others. They paved the way. Yet here we find ourselves, thirty, forty, even fifty years later, confined in the proverbial Prison House of Language. The Massachusetts Bay Colony still persists in America’s collective unconscious.

3. It is in my nature to shock people. I suppose this is connected to my need to get attention. That’s not a very mature motivation, I’ll admit, but I wager it’s one I share with many Facebookers. I believe it would have been very beneficial for me to have “completed” my “Higher Education.” A deeper, more comprehensive understanding on a wide range of topics would probably have obviated the need to put myself in the spotlight. Still, I have no overwhelming sense of shame or regret for having done so. This attempt to rationally examine the motivations for and implications of my act have put my mind largely at ease.

Another interesting self-analysis I have accomplished: Focussing obsessively on issues of severe gravity has had an undeniably leaden impact on my mood. Try as I might, the ceaseless preoccupation with America's endless wars, the world's economic injustices and environmental calamities, and a plethora of other human-made tragedies never fails to immerse me in a negative state of mind. Sometimes I need to lighten up, and giving expression to the ridiculous double standards that abound in our culture has been, to put it plainly, a bit of fun. Fun that conveniently raises the serious issue of whether the First Amendment is still in force in these Disunited States. I believe it is, to some extent anyway. Otherwise the Gestapo would have already dragged me off.
The Bill of Rights - use it or lose it.