Profanity. Consider the Grand Canyon of the West, or closer to home, the Sculptured Rocks of Hebron. A little trickle of water, gathering more trickles, growing into a stream, a river – and continuing for years, generations, eons – eventually wears away the hardest stone. Or, in the case of profanity, the degradation of American morality.
Profanity equals a lack of ingenuity – a lack of intelligence to find a more descriptive word. A word here and there, with more usage they are accepted into the mainstream vocabulary. A degradation of moral character, one thing leads to another: violence, mayhem, lack of respect for life – eventually murder.
Profanity. Remember when comics were funny? Recently a capital area newspaper had to remove a syndicated comic strip from its pages due to the strip’s use of profanity. Newspapers do not have a monopoly on the “f” word. It was recently used extensively in a production in a capital area theater – and ruined the otherwise intriguing story. A shame.
It appears that the moral fiber of our citizens that made this country great is rotting. People in power seem to have lost common decency. A shame, for those coming after us – our children – are learning vulgarity, learning disrespect for authority, and worse, learning that life doesn’t matter. Violence in video games, in movies, on TV, on “sale days” in stores. Murder because folks felt that they were not dealt a fair hand, and even worse, abortion because another human being is an “inconvenience.”
All because of profanity. A shame.
A.D. DUFAULT
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