Thursday, January 03, 2008

you scumbag, you maggot

Over this past "festive season" Radio One dubbed and undubbed A Fairy Tale of New York.

Simon from Southampton called the dubbing "political correctness gone mad".

How many times has someone said this?
What does it mean?
What do they mean?
What does Simon mean?
Is Simon lacking the ability for reasoned thought, and the vocabularly to express himself as an individual?
Why do we quote him, when someone else hopefully had something better to say?
Is this one of those sentances that people 'just say', because someone has, it sounded half good the first time, and we'd rather, and are encouraged to hide behind someone else's soundbites than risk exposing ourselves by saying what we really think?
Why do we accept it when people hide behind cliches like this?
Why don't we question?
Why don't we probe?
If we don't think, and speak for ourselves, won't our vocabularies dwindle and abilities for thought die?
Is there anyone you know who needs to be less able to express themselves?
Why has it been almost "cool" and certainly the done thing not to?

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