An article on the use of profanity
Oct. 21st, 2007 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneExplains how Bono of U2 was able to say "Fucking brilliant" on TV and get away with it.
It has a great quote: "A true moralist ... should hold that violence and inequality are "obscene," not sex and excretion." I think this holds the kernel of a great truth of one of the things that is fundamentally wrong with our country and several others.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807
It has a great quote: "A true moralist ... should hold that violence and inequality are "obscene," not sex and excretion." I think this holds the kernel of a great truth of one of the things that is fundamentally wrong with our country and several others.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807
