Somebody Said... OMG!

We've sort of been wondering why everyone gets so upset over somebody said... whatever.  We mean certain people in the government have spent all kinds of time, that we pay for, to stop certain people and certain things from being said.  Either on the TV, radio, the internet in general and social media in specific.  And, the Barons of Social Media have assigned all manner of personnel, spent God knows what amount of time with all kinds of algorithms to censor what someone, might say.  We wonder about this because %99.9999999 and we'll stop with the 9s here as we have just so much room for the rest of the column but you get the picture.  Almost everything, anyone, ever said, in the history of the human race, is all forgotten almost as quickly as it was spoken or written down and read. Perhaps something lingers for a few hours in your mind or even a day but the rest of it?  Oh yes, there are famous quotes but that's just it, they are famous because they hit on something that is intrinsic to our existence and has meaning.  And, well, you can put all those quotes in a single volume.  Measure that against the rest of the voluminous verbiage that comes out of the rest of us, all of which just goes... poof.  Unless we're wrong and you can remember what you said last Tuesday.  Or remember what most anyone else said, last Tuesday.

Oh yes, people get offended.  Certain words, certain phrases, certain subjects OMG, no this is double OMG!! if there ever was.  And, as all our regular readers know double OMG!! is the absolute end of it all.  But when people get offended and we're not entirely sure what happens when this happens, as we have to strike whatever offended from the record, least anyone hear it, or read it and get offended!  But what happens?  We mean, if they happen to hear it or read it and get offended?

And, does anyone, ever, recover from being offended?  Or does it haunt them all their days and then they die?

BTW, who in their right mind has the expectation of getting up tomorrow morning, and then going through the rest of their days without being offended?  To you, whoever you are, we say, good luck.

We can think of many answers as to why somebody gets so upset over what someone said or might say  but then we could be wrong, God forbid.  We might just be tilting at windmills too and besides in this journalism thingy, we're just supposed to ask the questions.

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