Hey Grazuh Quote:
Now if you were out with your friend, and some random stranger called him a fu**in' a**hole, do you think he's going to have the same reaction?
Absolutely not. Which illustrates the fact that words in themselves are not the issue but the connotations and emotional baggage that go with them. Toss into the mix that who says what to whom and where, and you see how complex things get. It's common practice for media sources to take a sound-bite, choose an "interpretation" and procede to wave it around like a baseball bat in the hope that someone's head will stop it. However, when the choice is between "The O'Reilly Minute" and a 1-hour textual deconstruction of the possible meanings of a "Yee Haww!!!," the Factor wins hands down.
It's human nature to try to reduce everything to a black and white proposition but unfortunately the world comes in all shades of gray. And least anyone should be misreading my comments as political in nature, they are, in fact, semiotic in intent, therefore transcending banal partisan broohaha.
Siggy
If life wasn't so pointless and absurd, I would take it more seriously.
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