“When Friedrick Nietzsche declared God is dead, FUCK became the most important world in the English language”
~Acharya Osho Rajneesh
Didn’t you love that video? Osho is sheer genius, and perhaps it’s only a genius who can veil subtle and often uncomfortable questions in humor. Veiled in that humor was a rather subtle message about how one word has dominated the vocabulary of our generation.
I did not have anything particular in mind to write about when I finished yesterday’s post. And in search of something interesting to write I started visiting other blogs and what struck me was the use of obscene language when it comes to describing things and as a matter of fact I too am a victim like most people out there.
“I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just one of me, you’ll have to swallow the lot as well”, wrote Salman Rushdie, in Midnight’s Children. I look at that statement not coming out from Saleem Sinai’s mouth, they aren’t some words that describe the protagonist, instead those words have a universal appeal, those words, in precise terms, describe human nature to the very core.
We are the sum total of all our influences. And thinking about that, I am not just surprised but scared. What are we feeding on? And where will all this rot take us? More importantly what rot will the next generation feed on?
It surprises me how people go ga-ga about heavy metal and subversive literature and underground cartoons and all that jazz; what we fail to realize is that those were things which stemmed out from a certain sort of oppression and the frustration that resulted, it was a way and means of opposing the state, an ideological weapon, a weapon of intellect and not something which was embraced just for the sake of being cool, and swearing by them, living by them, turning them into our bibles we’re making a grave mistake without knowing what they represent.
To get a sense of how much filth surrounds us, I suggest that you visit random blogs or even better observe yourself and keep a tab of how many times you use the word – fuck, shit, crap, cunt and others.
I tried, and I lost a count!
Where’s this word coming from? What is it’s source? How has it managed to poison us without us being able to detect it?
How would we ever be able to explain the loss of words when it come to our vocabulary? How many words have we killed, thanks to our obsession with filth. No matter how proficient writers or orators we may be, these words still linger on the tip of our tongues, waiting for that slip when they might sneak out and poison others.
Damn! I cant write for nuts!
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