Shit Happens?

Shit Happens?

from: the origin of political correctness
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Have you ever heard the joke about how shit happens? It starts out that somebody has a good idea that will make a change, but as the idea is passed "up" its syntax becomes perverted until it becomes "shit." It's a cute joke, but it's not how shit happens. Shit happens because there are two kinds of people in the world: the silent majority and the vocal minority. The silent majority are the people who are busy with the business of running their lives. They educate themselves, they employ themselves, they fall in love, get married, buy property, pay taxes and try to build a future for their posterity. The vocal minority is every idiot with nothing better to do than start screaming about the particular bug that happens to be up his ass. By himself he's an annoyance. But put a few dozen of them together in front of a camera and suddenly they're a special interest group. Of course, our fearless politicians, always eager for a sound bite and an opportunity to appear like they're doing some- thing, welcome the chance to leap on a high profile, low importance bandwagon and get their name in the paper. Every piece of annoying legislation that has slithered its way onto the books has passed this way. And when the common man picks his nose up off the grindstone at election time the issues he has to decide on are meaningless to him. This is the origin of political correctness. This is the mentality of trying not to piss anyone off. This is how shit happens.

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