Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Censorship??
I think that an increase in censorship would have an adverse effect upon the amount of foul language in books, music, on tv, etc....for some reason i feel like people tend to try and defy authority or purposefully go against set rules in an attempt to prove their independence...or as boys call it using testosterone-haha just KIDDING. but honestly, i feel like there is not even a proper authority to implement the censorship-perhaps a school could do it ( i mean there was-and is- a list of censored books not allowed in public schools--if it is still applicable to today, i am not sure...and as students, we lack many of our basic rights to free speech while in school) but at home or online, unless the government got completely involved, then there would be absolutely NO way to guarentee censorship of words. I mean, even if Orwell's 1984 society could exist with complete governmental control, I think that people would still find a way to get around the laws.
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Outstanding thoughts! Nice reference to Orwell. Now let's consider some options...
You are absolutely right about the tendency of people to want to use or say what is forbidden. And that is precisely the point. If there were a way to ramp up the censorship on certain words, and you make a good point asking who would actually set the standards, but if it could be done, would it not give those words more power, since now they would have the hint of the forbidden?
Imagine a scenario where you were forbidden by law to say "I love you." Would this have the effect or more people wanting to say it?
Understand, I am in NO WAY advocating this. I am questioning from where words derive their power and how that power can be strengthened or weakened. Think for a moment of the most offensive words in our culture at the present time. They are composed of consonants and vowels like any other. They fall into general categories like noun or verb and can be separated into syllables. We can write them phonetically, show their accents, and define them. So why are they offensive? Why does one word have such power to ignite thought, feeling, and even action, when a word "pencil" does not?
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