THE "POTTY-MOUTH" SYNDROME!
Mother Nature opens her "Potty-Mouth" and spews forth normally life-giving rains without regard to amount or consequences! It may be too much or it may not be!
We truly do live in
interesting times!
In some of his
writings, American General George Washington lamented the practice of using foul
language by the men in the Continental Army. He encouraged them to
stop.
It did not work!
Throughout history, the
“potty-mouth syndrome” has always been prevalent among the military.
Some of it is due to the lack of empathy, sympathy and general degeneration that happens
when people are taught to kill each other on purpose with the blessings of low-life governments
and chaplains. The soldiers and their leaders become worse than animals. They
develop both a hard inner and outer core that instead of aggrandizing manhood, it degrades
it. I first discovered that when I was forced to join the military. (There was
a draft in effect.) I was speechless at learning we were actually encouraged and taught to use it; after
a while it became a habit, seeming like the normal thing to do. I never liked
it or felt comfortable with the use of bad language. I was six months or more
in the military before I used a really bad word on someone for what I thought
at the time was a good reason. Everyone went silent in the room, and someone said, “WHAT
did he SAY?!” It was just too shocking to their senses because it came
from such an unexpected source! It was therefore, strangely effective!
My father never used
bad language. In my 37 years of experience around him,
he never uttered a word single word of profanity. He never said I should not, but since it was not a habit, I simply did not acquire it! Neither did my mother. It was unthinkable. There was no place in their thought processes for
that kind of stuff!
I only went my senior year in regular high school, as I had been correspondence-schooled, so I was not influenced by the relatively mild crudity found in locker rooms. Even during my first teen-age jobs, that kind of language was not heard much.
I once heard that the average
American has a vocabulary of 700 words. If that is really true, he really
is a moron!
I have no way of accurately measuring my language level, but I do know it
is vastly higher, maybe in the tens of thousands. Partly it is due to being
multi-lingual, but very likely it also is because my learning experience is so
much broader than many. I also find words interesting. There are so many ways
to be conversational, to be witty, to make a pun, to convey a thought, to create a parody or to
do serious commentary and research, that I fail to see why people need
profanity as part of regular conversation. It has become a bad substitute for a lack of vocabulary! The few times
I use it, it is mostly because there is no other way to quote someone and
convey a thought properly. Other than that, I mostly stay away from it. It
simply is not necessary.
It
is not just the military. When I was a broadcaster, four letter words were
grounds for losing a broadcast license or my job, and were absolutely
forbidden. No wiggle room there! It was better not to use foul language
than to get caught in a slip-up! Then, gradually, Jewish Hollywood got in the
act, and made movies with more and more risqué words in them. After a while
it seemed normal; people did not even realize they were being conditioned
and manipulated! The worst example I saw of miss-use of language was in
HBO’s “DEADWOOD” series where every sentence was filled with “potty
mouth” material to the point of absurdity! People just do not normally
talk like that! That, however, does not bother Hollywood in the least. They have a mission, a very devilish one!
At one time, it was mostly men
that used “foulies.” Not anymore. Today many women want to be “the
best man for the job” and continually outbid men to see who can be
crudest. To me, there is no better example of how low women have sunk than
their race to the bottom with respect to the “potty mouth syndrome!”
One would expect barmaids and trollops to use bad language since it seems to go
with their jobs! I have also heard some women express things that I, as a man,
would never have thought about saying, much less utter the words or such concepts!
It has gotten so bad even children under the age of ten are getting in the act.
Somewhere along the way, society has allowed itself to be degraded be those who
would destroy decency to a point where it seriously affects the
quality of life!
Today, even the
so-called “political candidates” are getting in the act. These clowns make comments
unheard of in past elections. It is just another
example of how we have lost our compass. Even more interesting is when these
candidates are mostly right about the comments they make!
Even the internet, which is a bastion of free speech, has become a haven for pornography. I never go there. There is nothing there worth watching. It is simply material that appeals to certain senses and can hardly have an uplifting effect on anyone.... It surely has nothing to do with romance or genuine love..
So, what to do about
it? Nothing can be done about it. The scourge has to
run its course. It is an individual choice! Years ago, pornography became so prevalent in liberal Denmark you
could find the foulest magazines on regular newsstands. It became so commonplace
it eventually failed to generate shock value. The garbage is still displayed there, but how
many magazines like that can one read and be favorably impressed? After a while
it becomes dull, duller and dullest! In the process we lose some more of our humanity,
and do not realize how we are being used and abused or how we
aid and abet it!!
The "well-balanced" language of rocks at Arches National Park.
It is always nice to
see people who set an example by getting along fine without it all, and try to
teach their children that those are just devilish words that do
not have to be used frequently…. Something to ponder about….
Written and Photographed
by
Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst
Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst
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