protecting the public

when M.I.A flipped off the
world while performing at the superbowl,
folks at the FCC gasped &
talk of preserving the integrity of the
show has now been discussed,
as if there is no higher level of cultural
achievement
(therefore, needing to be preserved in amber
to pass on to generations)
than to strut around
smack dab in between a bunch of muscle men
slamming their heads together while
running around after a little leather ball---
we, the public, need to be protected,
says the FCC,
who desperately tries to keep a few channels on the television
from being polluted with
the realities that exist in the world in which we
actually live---
their motive, as in all modes of relentless attempts at
censorship,
is to create some kind of fantasy world for “the children”---
what child grows up healthy in such a place,
where they never experience any contrary ideas than what
their parents, church, government or school
might thrust down their throats,
until they are considered adults?
what adults walk the earth,
having never come across anything deemed
“profane?”

rather than the FCC & the like
trying to protect us from the realities of ourselves,
we should protect ourselves
from those that try & pretend
as if we were not “vulgar”---
the most vulgar of performers in the world
are those that do their best to hide what really is
happening.