Tu haske bolelu a jaan

 

Vulgarity can often be strangely liberating. For a while, it swiftly puts us at ease from the bondages of decency and propriety, and makes the wild and improper in us easier to live with. Vulgarity ridicules the petty worries we cultivate in our culture, and reminds us of an idea which many among us need to visit once in a while : 'no one knows'. For this reason, vulgarity was cherished and celebrated among the aristocratic class in the 16th century Italy.

Vulgarity exhibits indifference towards structures of traditional snobbery and hierarchy and promotes a sense of equality of status among people. It frees the experience of happiness and pleasure from being subject to parameters of achievement and growth in the society which views an inadequate concept of meritocracy as  equality of opportunity, and sees achievement as a symbol of inherent worth and talent.

Traditional snobbery legitimises happiness only when it is accompanied by an increased proximity to something sacred - valued, difficult to achieve, something which helps improving group's power and survival probability - thereby attempting to limit it's presence from lives of those whose unique skills aren't yet seen as valuable by the social group. Vulgarity frees people from this limitation and sets itself apart from the sacred as it celebrates ideas that are simple to understand, objects that are easy to acquire and things which can be within reach of the ordinary.

Vulgarity inhibits the growth of snobbery in society and makes us more culturally flexible, accommodative and more in touch with our own wild within.

tu haske... bolelu e jaan... ;)