Monday, May 24, 2021

 A joke Lenny Bruce made performing at a nightclub (sometime in either the late 1950s or early 1960s) that got him arrested due to the necessity of an unavoidable profanity without which the skit would have been rendered ineffectual:

"...parents are all up in arms upon learning than a certain camp counselor recently admitted to being a homosexual.

Just WHAT IS IT these parents are afraid of?  That their son's going to return from camp and say "Hey mom, camp was great!  We had all kinds of activities---fishing, woodworking, hiking, baseball, swimming, barbecuing, and cock-sucking!"

...clearly taking a stab at the dogmas and social prejudices of that timeframe.

The idea that just because someone is different in one critical area it automatically means that "nothing else about them can be normal either".


                                          Musing For Today

There are too many who cannot distinguish between Rights, Liberties, and Carte Blanche

              What is the internet for .....

....if not to be NOT like "the Emperor", cloaking oneself in "garments" of false fronts and imagery, but instead to freely expose oneself candidly to the world?


But with the threats of censorship (or the potential thereof) a lot of folks are stifling their innermost thoughts, reactions, and viewpoints, opting instead to resign themselves to repeating trendy platitudes and mantras, thus rendering their offerings no better than what one would normally expect from the types who exist solely to represent whatever "shadow government" faction they identify with (race, academic, political affiliation, social class, gender, religion, cultural/sub-cultural, sexual orientation) instead of being a unique one-of-a-kind individual

....becoming indistinguishable in the process.