Trashing Our Culture With Trash

By Selwyn Duke

A long-growing garbage field much larger than Texas is creeping toward the United States’ west coast, and parts of it will increasingly make landfall for quite a long time.

And one can’t help but think that it has come to the right place.

A new book by writer Charlotte Hays entitled When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? will be released this week, and, paraphrasing historian Arnold Toynbee, it issues a serious warning: “Society crumbles when it takes cues from the underclass.”

The author goes on to write in a New York Post article on the subject:

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Comments

[Cristina]

Democracy: the kingdom of the scum.

[Billiam]

I find myself pretty much in agreement. Years back, I concluded that my language was too foul, and that, should I continue using it that way, I would not be taken seriously by people that mattered, such as certain family members and superiors at work. So, with determination and consideration, I not only severely curtailed the use of those words, but I have also almost completely banished "um" from my vocabulary. It makes a difference in how you're perceived.