I have a satellite TV system with a handful of movie channels featuring new movies made for cable, and every time I click on one in the middle of some story—no matter the format—cops and robbers, comedy—within ten seconds—I am not kidding!—an actor spits out that old Anglo-Saxon acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, a form of adulterous behavior that used to be a crime leading to time in the village stocks.
And as soon as I hear that word—I find it ugly and grating—I click to the next channel and—I am not kidding!—with ten seconds, an actor, even an actress, spews the same four-letter word.
Then I click immediately to the third channel and…same thing. I no longer can watch such “entertainment.” The behavior also exposes, every time, the scriptwriter’s unwitting admission that he suffers from a limited vocabulary in the rich English language.
American culture has become unbearably vulgar, which adjective commonly connotes dirty words that usually concern bodily functions below the waist. Indeed, the F-bomb references the most G-d-like activity that human beings engage in—Imitatio Dei—like the Almighty Who created Adam & Eve—the creation of another human being. Only, in common speech and entertainment these days, it is snarled in anger, insult, or threat.
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