Political Correctness

The world has come a long way since I was a child. In a mere 20 plus years people have grown more sensitive and lost the ability to govern themselves. There is so much, (too much) PC in the world that is damn near impossible to talk to someone without a small concern in the back of your mind that you might offend someone.

This disturbs me, because it gives power to others too much, isn’t it up to me if I get disturbed? Do people really have that much control? Can someone say something to you and affect your mood? Your disposition? If so perhaps you should take a step back and look inward, or pay someone to help you look inward.

In this country of countries, our democracy, it should be majority rule. Not the vocal minority. Now, however, it is NOT their fault the world, our world, my world, has gotten this way. It is OUR fault. It is too easy to sit back and watch TV and say, “that sucks, that shouldnt be that way”. Then change the channel. If it does suck say something. If it isn’t right speak up. Lord knows the other side is speaking up loud and clear.

Now, should the vocal minority, meet the vocal majority, who do you think they (they being the suits, the people who freak out when people bitch), would listen too? See where I am going with this? Now I too am guilty of this, though the older I get the more I get riled up about it. Maybe its time to get riled up when you are younger, I mean, riled, well it just sounds old doesn’t it? While the word might be old you do NOT have to be old to do it. So get your rile on.

I know some of my geek brothers and sisters have gotten upset at the cancellation of a TV show. So you break out your emails and twitters and facebooks and you swoop into action (I have them all as well). Same concept. Government officials have email, so do big wig executives. And should they start to be flooded, well the vocal minority will not be so loud will they? Do you really want someone deciding what you should watch, read, listen too, do?

Now that is just a small facet of the PC issue going around, somewhere in there the worlds sense of humor disappeared as well. My dad has a saying, take it with a grain of salt, and while I know he did not coin it, people should heed it.People are offended more easier than ever before. Why is this? Does anyone know? Tell me there is a scientists are out there performing tests in a lab on hypersensitive people. PLEASE. Long drawn out painful tests. With needles. The world in general just needs to take 2 chill pills and call me next decade. Up the chai tea intake and stop being so damn sensitive. Diversity, that word is praised, I am diverse, we are diverse, isn’t being diverse just another way of pointing out differences? What happened to melting pot? Isn’t that the bases with which this country was created? Take it all, skin color, accents, dispositions, put it in a pot and see what comes of it. Not seperate it all out and set it side by side by side. Can’t we all just go back to being Americans again?

J