A Society Of Platitudes

Everywhere you turn nowadays, you see some moronic platitude expressing some non-original thought.  We think we are so clever because we found some poster, some meme, some saying that is “profound”.  

A Platitude is defined as a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. In other words….meaningless.

It seems that Facebook's sole purpose these days is to continuously regurgitate some platitude or another. Do we not have something better to do with our time than passing these placards back and forth?  Has one of these every changed your life? Have they changed your opinion, or only pissed off your friend who thinks differently?

• “Good things comes to those who wait”  Bullshit! Just plain bullshit!
• “Time heals all wounds” Really? Tell that to someone with PTSD
• “Everything happens for a reason.” Ha! Things just happen, we may have caused them to happen, or through no fault of our own, they happen, but there isn’t some profound reason behind it at all.
• “Life doesn’t give you things you can’t handle.” There are plenty of people who would completely disagree with this. Too many of them commit suicide.

(I know, I used a  platitude to express my detestment for platitudes)

Here is what might change your life….read a book; read poetry; write a book; write poetry; come up with an original thought of your own. If we are going to quote someone, quote it from a passage you read and with context.

Politicians are professionals at this. We hear about “Freedom”, “Family”, “Values”, “Principles”...All meaningless, because they are simply regurgitated bull-crap trying to invoke some emotion. I am convinced that this attempt at emotional inspiration will result in a placard on every corner someday. Neither party has a monopoly on Freedom, Liberty, Principles, or any other string of empty words. They are empty because you put no meaning behind them. Words are important, they are supposed to mean something, but you spew these words one day, and then refuse to act on them. Don’t give me regurgitated crap, give me a plan, and how you are going to implement that plan. Don't give me an empty platitude. It demeans you, and it demeans us as a society.