CENSORSHIP IN A NEUTRAL UNIVERSE

Fuck, is a cunt of a word! So is prick and many other taboo words!

Do I have your attention, or have I offended you, or both? Either way, it is your thinking that has made it so.

And if you are offended, then let me quote Shakespeare, specifically, Hamlet: ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’. In other words the universe is neutral, there is nothing either good or bad, but our thinking. More specifically, our conditioned thinking—like Pavlov's dog, society has conditioned us to believe certain things are either bad or good.

Yet, what is acceptable by one culture, is not necessarily accepted by another. Take belching for instance, perfectly acceptable in the middle east, a real compliment in fact, but try that at your local dinner party and gauge the reaction. Or nudity, even in our own western culture, it has had its generational ups and downs; today its common place and generally inoffensive; yet in muslim society its taboo, especially for women (a double standard perhaps).

Look around the world and the diversity of cultural ethnicity, religious divisions and divisions within religions, moral and ethical disparities; in their differences, they can’t all be right—right! Nor can they all be wrong—right! Reason and logic dictates that they are conditioned by the society they belong too or live in etc. to accept certain codes of practice and behaviour that they think is right. But in our diversity, just who is right and who is wrong. If both sides think they are right, then what does that tell us. It tell me, that you can’t trust your thinking and that nothing is intrinsically right or wrong, or more specifically that any idea you have is neither right or wrong but neutral. And if an idea , thought or a word, any word, ‘cunt’ for example is neither right nor wrong, but neutral, then how can it be offensive.

And, to further support this neutral universe theory, offensive words come and go. I can still recall a time when ‘bloody’ was taboo, or ‘bugger’, now it’s featured in some of our best advertising. Isn’t this the perfect example of a ‘neutral universe’

So getting back to taboo words like ‘cunt’. Who ordained it to be offensive? Because intrinsically it’s not offensive at all. It can be used in an offensive way, much the same as how you direct many words to offend, for example, take the word ‘fat’; I can call you a ‘fat person’ and if you are fat, then logically you shouldn’t be offended, but depending on your conditioned sensitivity, you may be offended, and the ‘fat’ word sounds offensive.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating the indiscriminate use of such words, as a descriptive substitute for a lack of a better word, or as is common among people lacking a varied vocabulary, by just randomly and consistently placing it in a sentance—that’s pathetically boring—as would any repetitive word be. But, for fuck’s sake, sometimes a cunt of a word has just as much frigging merit as any other descriptive word that other priggish pricks prefer to use.

Back to the basic point I’m trying to make: the universe, our world, or whatever your concept of reality is—it is neutral. There is nothing intrinsically good or bad about anything, but our thinking has made it so.

So...I’ll fuck off now, and leave you cunts to decide the merits of my argument for yourselves.