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A couple of things I’ve seen recently bother me. One happened
yesterday when I clicked a YouTube video featuring a replay of a local TV news
show reporting a rape. All was fine except that the word “rape” was blocked. Same-same
the “F” word or the other six forbidden utterances. Something is wrong here and
I struggle to imagine just what it is.
I’m not a fan of gory, but I do revere history. The old films of war and holocaust now suffer from having explicit scenes and photos of dead bodies blurred. Disclosures appear before ads and videos warning that the following may make someone uncomfortable.
Have we gotten too “woke?”
I fear it may be so. Will the word “Nazi” be blurred in
future telecasts because millennials don’t “feel safe” when they hear it? How
about "Manson, Bundy, Dahmer, and Gingrich?"
I tell you what makes me feel “not safe.” It’s the wimping and bastardization of human intercourse and the blurring of reality in the name of succor. I've been so "not feeling safe" in my life that I would have emptied a clip on my Sainted Mother had she come screaming out of the jungle at me. I think it served to make the rest of my life more joyous. Reality teaches and strengthens. An impenetrable wall to block fear is nothing more than a woke Plato's Cave.
The unfortunate result of all this? I’m drifting farther from the left
and toward the center. I’ll never reach the cruelty, selfishness, and irrationality
of the right, but the extreme left may lose a tacit supporter. And just ask those who
participated in the American revolution, women’s suffrage, or the civil rights
struggle how important tacit support is.
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