I've got a song stuck in my head. It goes, "Kicks just keep gettin' harder to find, but all your kicks ain't brining you peace of mind..." Yeah, while the world was changing I was listening to and watching the Monkees. My idea of scandalous is different than almost everybody else who is looking for a word to shock or titilate everyone.
In class on Sunday, a teacher used lots of words to shock us, like shiz, freak and even said "What the Fuh!" It worked we were all shocked. It was done to bring out the differences,between the ages in what is acceptable now vs. then.
Ofcourse it was taught that the words only represent our thoughts so no matter what we call them out loud, the effect or meaning is the same, so we need to stop feeling ok about not actually saying or doing anything bad.
It got me thinking about how sex oriented TV and music are, and almost everything commercial is for shock value, things like depicting or referring to sex is supposed to shock, but kicks just keep getting harder to find.
What was really interesting to me was when I thought about what would similarly shock or allure me, it made me realize how unnormal I was. For instance talk of sex or a naked man have no effect on me, but talk of security or breathing is sort of scandalous in my mind.
I noticed in many old dramas how touching hands or dancing meant something touching sacred to them, it means nothing to me. It is like the word piss in the Bible. I cannot say it, yet it was written unashamedly by prophets and religious scholars, or the word we all giggled at as children as we read about the Ass in the manger.
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