Faux Outrage

~ Gottfried

We live in a society where people are more offended by swear words and middle fingers than they are by famine, warfare and the destruction of the environment. The order of the day is people are constantly nerve-stricken after previously following the permission to live lies. An overlap into discomfort largely comes from an excess of comfort. Don’t get too comfortable living a lie.

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice. All that’s important is truth. Truth doesn’t mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged. Know this, a lie repeated a thousand times is still a lie.

A real situation will always expose a fake friend. If you trip up the terrace steps and your friends don’t start laughing so much water is coming out of their eyes, are they even your friend? I mean they’ll take you to the hospital afterwards but not before having a good laugh. I wish people were like money so I could hold them to the light to see which ones are real. Some of you are fake dollar bills. As useful as monopoly money.

I’m a comic, and I’m supposed to outrage and make people laugh. Part of making people laugh is to shake up their thinking. That’s why Banter Republic exists. I don’t think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don’t mind being provocative in content. I’m all for an intellectual debate but sometimes it gets a bit exhausting. To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. They’re brain dead.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. It’s not the lie that bothers me, it’s the insult to my intelligence that I find offensive. Why would you tell me that your phone died but you were also somehow liking tweets on Twitter? The Internet is the vehicle we’re driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world. People don’t change, they reveal who they are. All this time I didn’t know you were a chicken, but here we are. Somebody heat up the oven!

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say whatever they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. I detest the idea that you have to be brutally honest to show that you are real. There’s absolutely no need to put anyone down to score a cheat point unless they absolutely deserve it. In which case, I suggest you put in extra effort to destroy what’s left of their self esteem and obliterate their confidence forever. Big smoke!

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Think! Why are you really angry at me? Is it what I did or what I said? Or are you just assuming and now you’ve overthought yourself into paranoia? Don’t make me so scared I can’t be honest with you anymore sweetheart. Whatever the case, know this. I’m not insulting you.

I’m describing you.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

246 thoughts on “Faux Outrage”

  7. “We live in a society where people are more offended by swear words and middle fingers than they are by famine, warfare and the destruction of the environment”

    All the atrocities of the world doesn’t offend people as badly as one cuss word.

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          1. Now, I don’t believe in the “boys will be boys” trope, it has been used as an excuse for far too much overlooking things need to addressed, but the desensitization to real crimes are scary.
            🙂
            But in reality, people can tell the difference when something is said or written in mean spirit than when it is not. 🙂

            Some of my characters cuss more than Ahab on the deck of the Pequod. LOL! 😀

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          3. Ah, I see, by reference to Ahab the seventh king of Israel. My ancestry…I shall never tell. Nah, I was talking about Ahab in the story Moby. It’s an example of mob craziness.

            I always felt every one can discern good from evil. The congregating into mobs usually aren’t to support anything for the good of all mankind.

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      2. I often wondered how does a swear word bruise any one’s ego if it is not directed at them personally. I think we have much bigger things to worry about than a swear word.

        Getting upset over a word… this only let the world know just how privileged you are when you want others to sugar coat their horrendous experiences or depiction of the experiences of others, plainly states only ‘your’ experiences matter.

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          3. Some days I’m running from offensiveness like the woman in “The Birds” is running from the demonic possessed bird.

            Oh yeah, it’s a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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  9. Somebody just got whipped…

    Personally, I prefer Rihanna’s s&m version, way more friendly approach… :))
    That being said, kudos to you. Whoever needed to hear that, probably deserved it.
    I feel opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one… and at the end of the day, anger is a personal issue, it hurts none but oneself. Like the parable about holding a piece of hot coal… don’t remember the whole story but get the gist. Some don’t, not yet anyway.

    We all need to be who we are, without harming another, we try to be the best we can be What I am trying to say is that there are too many of us to let petty things get to us, and anger is wasted energy if it is not constructively used.

    LIFE IS TOO DAMN SHORT.

    Thanks again for your insight. Brilliant read. Thoroughly enjoyed the Banter! Hope you have and enjoy a great day!!! People get angry with me… I tell them to bite me… and in return, I tell them that I bite, don’t make me angry… LOL

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    1. Opinions are like assholes 😂😂😂😂😂

      The thing about this is that someone can read this your beautiful comment and get mad. It’s ridiculous.

      No way, you’re a biter 😂

      Thanks for stopping by, I live for your comments

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      1. If they get mad, it says something about them, not me. Issues that need resolving are my go-to advice…

        I do bite… but not hard :))

        You flatter the commentator dear, sir… always a pleasure.

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  10. On a more serious note. Yes, I think that people accept greater atrocities more easily these days because speaking up against it might cause more damage to the self than good, in my experience, you will find that it is because it is perceived that one will be ostracised for speaking up, being different, doing things the right and moral way instead of things the worldly way. The meek shall inherit the earth… are you sure? I am no saint, but I try not to plunder, rape, and steal my way through life… obviously this is not meant literally, but I am sure you get it. Makes me sick to my stomach sometimes, reminds me of I am one, they are legion. Maybe I read too much.

    Hatt’s of for speaking up,

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      1. Once again, it is a question of opinion…. lol

        In SA our system is so corrupt that the “good” people are too good to get away with it when caught with stupid stuff and the very real evil and wicked of the world get off with excuses etc. etc. etc. like it is nobody’s business… let me not lament over something that I cannot in my private capacity change…

        Therefore I will practice the serenity prayer today… 🙂

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