eff the effers and eff the effing mothereffers and eff you while you're at it!

[burnunit]

I got the above going thru the archives of get your war on and I must say I completely agree. The F word is the LEAST OF OUR FUCKING PROBLEMS. Which reminded me that there are many people I know, even some who only occasionally read these posts, who still wince at the f word. This post is not about any of you, nor is it any kind of 'secret message' telling you what I really think about you. I don't actually think about you and your opinions of the f word very much at all! I'm certainly not out to combat loved ones over my vocabulary. I'm very comfortable with my vocabulary as it is. Me, I feel most comfortable in an environment where the f word is ready at hand, like punctuation. It's too good a word to extinguish. Not only that. But this reminded me (this cartoon, moreso than conversations about saying 'fuck' or not) that our national debate has utterly sunken beyond repair. It's like we should reboot and start over. Nobody can talk about anything to do with business, politics, media, science, or relations (personal or geopolitical) without either driving themselves nuts or sounding like they're nuts. We've really been debased and distracted by woah a really pretty girl just walked by my office window seriously we've been deranged, deluded, debased, distracted by a 'world more full of weeping than we can understand'. I can't believe there's an honest to God shouting match going on in the media and the fucking political fishbowl (oops there's that word again) about wishing Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas. Shut UP! It's so much more complicated than that! I think what especially stings about that situation is that the debate is into it's second or third round this year. And that's after many rounds through history (see this article from Salon about that matter.) Yee. Argh. So I'm back to working on my book, my complicationist manifesto More is More: A primer for the complicated life but I think it'll be years before i finish it. If my head don't asplode before I do.