;Posted on 06/19/2013 5:09:55 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 19, 2013-- mala fide
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mala fide [mah-lah fee-de]
adj
undertaken in bad faith, not genuine
From Latin
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It’s the McGurk Effect and it has become an obsession. Time to let it go.
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There are never enough freebies to satisfy the gang in the White House.
This reminds me of Clooney in O Brother.
I am bona fide. I’m the paterfamilias.
I’m not obsessed, other that I cannot understand why nobody else is disturbed by this terribly negative message this song sends teens and recognizes the danger.
I recently watched a Dateline on ID where a Montana honor student was convicted of doing exactly that after breaking up with her boyfriend. It was not quite exact, however. She crossed the center line and crashed her car into an oncoming car at 85 mph and killed 3 people. I suppose there was no bridge handy. She got 30 years in jail with 15 suspended. She texted her intention to kill herself by crashing her car to her boyfriend just before it happened. This happened 2 days before the prom.
Now, I have no idea whether this teen ever heard this song, but I do know that unstable, emotional people can be influenced by music, movies, and books.
It’s not even good music.
Afraid, maybe it’s just that we have all seen and heard far worse as far as current music lyrics, and this fails to register on the scale, because it’s no more heinous than many other songs. Popular culture is a cesspool, period. This particular song is, sad to say, fairly de riguer.
Obviously, I don’t listen to the same music you do — nor would I encourage my children to do so.
And it’s one thing when you can’t hear/understand the words. It’s another when the lyrics are as clear as Cole Porter.
With every word uttered of
All the screw-ups and misuse
The truth is plain to anyone
Who is not willfully obtuse
That every action of the IRS
Is mala fide, at the least-
A tool against an enemies list
And a way to feed that beast
It has a history of corruption
That goes back farther than us-
It is past time for a clean-up
And throwing it under the bus...
...you know, I am often alone but am never lonely.
As music, it sucks-and I like at least some of just about any genre of music-with the exception of rap and most of that whiny pop stuff. But as one who has grown with rock n roll, I just find that song is stupid and vapid. I think anyone whose behavior is influenced by songs/music to endanger their life is seriously lacking in reason, and likely a potential Darwin contender.
There is music from every genre and age that talks about despair, ending it all, or being drunk, cheated on/cheating, etc-really depressing stuff, but people have listened to it for years with only the foolish being unduly influenced.
Sorry if that sounds mean, but one of my neighbors has DOA and other dark rock blasting from his workshop every weekend-when I walk by, I stop, talk to him and listen, being a bit of a headbanger/heavy rock enthusiast. No one I know has driven off any bridges, OD’d or been DOA under the influence of music yet, in spite of listening to that heavy and psychedelic rock since our teens-it is just music, not a satanic/black magic spell-if someone doesn’t like it, don’t listen to it...
Agreed-I’ll listen to my neighbor crank up the dark rock 1/4 mile away and headbang any day and like it better...
All I can say is no thanks to the handbill-I was thinking of getting a new phone to replace my trusty Razr, but now-no way...
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One of your better efforts. Excellent!
Thank you!
As you say, someone predisposed to do themselves harm is more likely to be triggered by LIFE events than music. Not defending that song in the slightest, but I’m not shocked not appalled by it. I don’t care for the death metal, headbanger stuff, don’t listen to it. None of my kids are either but I don’t censor their music. We talk often about all kinds of things, politics, morals etc current events. If they were seriously depressed and contemplating driving off a bridge I am pretty sure I’d have indications. People who worry about their kids being influenced by music would be better served by getting closer, emotionally speaking, to their kids and being tuned in to what they are thinking and worrying about. I’m very comfortable with the relationship I have with my kids, I know when they’re depressed etc.
My daughter and I do share most of our musical taste-only difference is she doesn’t like AC/DC or angry/heavy metal, and I’m not into Green Day, bubblegum pop and that whiny Seattle stuff. She did go to an AC/DC concert with MrT5 and I about 6 years ago, but she looked appalled the whole time, and said she was sure all those people our age at the concert were somehow warped long ago.
That said, the child is apparently properly brought up, unaffected by the music she listened to-married, just got her masters, off with her husband where he is working in SC, etc.
i might point out that being aware of what is out in the popular culture doesn't require that one be a purveyor of it.
Funny that you mentioned that band. One of my friends from the park who is at least 20 years older than me was sporting an AC/DC cap this morning. I chuckled.
Good for your friend-I’ve been a fan since the beginning-I’ve put the greatest hits tape or CD in every vehicle of mine since about 1980-something-it is what I crank up and sing with when I’m stressed, and it has been the death of many a stereo speaker...
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