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On the Edges of Reason Wondering

What provides comedians the gift of speech uncensored with lessons that teach? Their open mindedness provoking ease undeterred to speak as they please. How easily the comedic commentary flows to places typical populace dare not go and those few who do too easily are declared hatred spewed. I cannot judge, it is not my place and it stares me in the face. that history can be lost at freedoms repeated cost. Today there are so many points off limits words not to say in any scrimmage; should they slip out no matter how you pretend they are deemed words none dare defend; unless - race, gender or personage might use them it's understood, they are free to abuse them. I'm not prejudiced, no, really I'm not but every now and then I have to question saying WHAT? - some random thought emerges with a hint of deceptive questioning surges Can't I reason and ponder without fear I am on the brink of vocalizing what I might think. Comedic relief displays, the hidden prejudice revealed in wordplay; for blacks to say the N word is okay and accepted but for the whites it is hatred protected; while LBGT communities seek unity others are not allowed displeasured scrutiny; your religion is blind faith for Muslim and Jew should you practice in this state if it's not my view? how often is it true that what we say is not what we always do. Indeed, there are those who speak hatred in their prose but not everyone is afraid to say that freedom is a sharpened blade. Freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, Freedom of religion without harm; the Bill of Rights fought and well payed too easily fades away on the paper frayed. George Carlin revealed it all so well surely those thoughts and images, could not send us all to hell. “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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