No. This is not a note about transvestites. Though I do find them interesting if not disturbing. This is about society as much of my writing is these days. What’s wrong with hit, how it can be fixed and how Society doesn’t really even exist anyway. I write about life. About what is, what isn’t and what should be.
Being an interning broadcaster, I’m faced daily with censorship. I have to think about every line in a story, making sure it doesn’t offend someone. Making sure that I won’t be sued for this or that by this one or that one.
Censorship is, in my opinion, is a burden to civilization. If you don’t like what you’re hearing or seeing, don’t look. Or write something of your own in the contrary, stating your own opinions.
One aspect of censorship that disconcerts me is politically correctness. We are all so concerned about stepping on each others’ toes. We’re afraid of offending people. Why? It goes back to the blinders we wear that I spoke of in the last note. We all try to go through our lives, undisturbed and uninterrupted. We all strive for complete control over our lives, even down to the simplest things. Like coming home from work for instance. Why do we start shouting obscenities when we’re stuck in traffic on the way home? Is it because we just really want to get home after a long day performing our relatively monotonous tasks? On the surface, yes that’s the reason. But if you take the thought a step further you’ll see that we’re idiots.
We get pissed off because the sand castle illusion of a controlled and ordered universe is swept away. We have no control over the other drivers in a traffic jam. That’s what infuriates us. So we strive to never offend anyone or interrupt anyone because we ourselves hate being offended and interrupted because it shatters our precious wet dreams. The golden rule in action right? Well to hell with that.
It’s unhealthy to live like that. Constantly grabbing on to anything stable that comes our way. If I offend you, I expect you to tell me so. It’s you’re right to call someone and asshole, if in your opinion they are one. And it’s their right to say that they aren’t, because in their opinion they truly aren’t. Me, I know I’m kind of an ass so I’ll admit to it. But the realization isn’t going to change me or my beliefs. And neither are you, unless you really are correct.
And admit it, you feel the same way. Even if you don’t act that way. You believe what you believe and no one can change that. Only you can change your beliefs. Only you can prevent forest fires.
So, yeah I’m not going to pause every time I make a generalization to appeal to the masses. I’m not going to say ‘his or her,’ or ‘he or she.’ Besides, if you’re offended that easily then you have some inferiority problems. That’s why god made shrinks. And lager.
People use generalizations to make things easier. Like saying mankind instead of humankind. We’re obsessed with equality. In the end, what is equality? Who is equal? We go through life carrying a ragged banner saying “All men were created equal,” which in itself is a politically incorrect statement. And perhaps an incorrect statement in general. Not everyone is equal. Some of us have more potential than others, some of us are morons, some of us are geniuses. And who thinks themselves equal to others anyway? We think of ourselves as being better or worse then someone. If you’re a woman in her teens and twenties then you probably think of yourself as inferior to others. Are you? That’s for you to decide.
