An excellent excerpt from David Icke's 1996 book "I am me, I am free" from the chapter "It's a piece of shit, walk away":
"There may be some people reading this book who have
been offended by my use of the word shit. If you have, it might be worth
asking yourself why you are offended. Shit is merely the one syllable
sound which has been accepted to mean a substance we all produce and
if we didn’t produce it we would eventually explode. Very messy. I use
the word shit because the nature of the substance it describes is brilliantly
symbolic of the propaganda we are pressured to accept as our reality on
this planet. If anyone is offended by the word shit, it is not because I am
being offensive because that is not my intention. It is because you have
chosen to be offended. It is all taking place in your mind, not mine. Even
if I was trying to be offensive, you still don’t have to take it on and be
affected by it. You have a choice. Well now I’ve offended you, I might
as well go all the way In for a penny in for a pound - you know me. How
about the word fuck?
My GOD! Did you hear what he just said?
Youknow...ffff...the”F”word.
Disgusting! Outrageous! What an awful man!
I said the “F” word? Oh, you mean fuck? Yes, that’s right, I did. So?
It’s funny that the same people who do not get offended by American
warplanes bombing the crap out of people in the Middle East, Vietnam,
and elsewhere, killing children by the score, will be breathless in their
indignation when someone says the word “fuck”. The end of the world
is not ushered in by warplanes and atomic bombs, but by people saying
“fuck”. “The moral fibre of society is crumbling. Bring back hanging
and conscription, that’ll sort it. Put ‘em in the army, make bomber pilots
of them.” What a hoot it is, all this plastic moral hypocrisy You have
“news”papers selling themselves by using naked women and sexual
titillation and that’s OK, it seems. But when the word fuck comes into
a
story, it is always written as “f***” because this is a “family”
newspaper as you can see by the lady showing her tits on the inside
page. What’s with this f*** business? When you see f***, what word goes
through your mind? Fuck, exactly So what’s the difference? Ah, I get it
now. It’s fine to think the word fuck, but not to say it or write it in full. Gotcha. F*** that. See, its easy
Give me strength.
I was thinking: what if the slang word for sexual intercourse had
turned out to be something else? It could quite easily have been so. We
call two pieces of bread placed together a sandwich because a guy
called Sandwich was supposed to have “invented” them. What if his
name had been Willie? Or Sidebottom? We’d now be eating willies or
sidebottoms. It’s just a word, a sound. What if the slang word for sexual
intercourse had been, by a quirk of fate, sandwich? And what if the
word for two pieces of bread placed together had turned out to be fuck?
Today if you go into a sandwich bar and ask for a cheese and tomato
sandwich no-one turns a hair. But if you ask for a fucking sandwich,
everyone is mortally offended. Imagine if the words were the other way
round, as could quite possibly have happened. You would then go into
a fucking bar and ask for a cheese and tomato fuck. No-one would turn
a hair. But if you asked for a sandwiching fuck, everyone would be
mortally offended.
My GOD! Did you hear what he just said?
You know.. .ssss.. .the “ S ” word.
Disgusting! Outrageous! What an awful man!
I’ve got a great idea. Let’s grow up shall we?
I’m not advocating that everyone goes around using the word fuck
or any other just for the sake of it. I actually think the word is a travesty
of the true experience of sexual union, which at its peak, with the right
person at the right time, is for me, the ultimate experience in this timespace
reality. But it is also a very expressive word which conveys
brilliantly your state of mind when you drop a hammer on your foot, or
the car won’t start, or the events of the day have wound you up. A few
more “fucks” and tears and a few less stiff upper lips and a lot of people
would occupy their bodies for a great deal longer. The overall point I
am
making here, however, is that if you are offended at anything and have
your emotions stressed as a result, it is you who have chosen to
be offended. It’s a thought form, a state of mind, which you are in
control of. People constantly get offended and wound up about things
that don’t matter. Just whisper slowly ...f...u...c...k... There, are you any
better or worse a person? No. You have just shaped your mouth and
lips to say a word, just as you do when you say sandwich. It is just a
sound. It is the intent behind a word, not the word itself, that is positive
or negative.
The way so many are offended by the sight of the naked human body
never ceases to make me chuckle. Religion has conditioned the
collective psyche to such a degree that to display what we were born
with, live with, and die with - our physical body - is considered highly
offensive and an arrestable offence! It is illegal to show your willy or
fuzzy bits on a beach, but legal to blow the shit out of defenceless
people in faraway countries under the banner of freedom and peace.
To say our “values” have become desperately confused is the
understatement of eternity. This is one reason why I decided to appear
naked on the front cover and even then I had to hide my doo dah with
a sticker to allow the book to be displayed in the shops. Bookshops, it
seems, have been designated doo dah-free zones. It’s just a body for
Christ’s sake and we all have one. If you are offended by a naked body
again you might ask why you are offended because that’s your choice,
your problem, and no-one else’s. The same applies when people attack
us or hurl abuse at us. We can take on their problem or leave them to
deal with it. If they have a problem with us, that’s exactly the situation.
They have a problem. It only becomes our problem if we choose to get
hooked in and be offended by what they say or do. When we react
negatively to someone who offends or hurts us, we are making a twoway
magnetic connection with them. We become hooked into their
vibe. Their problem is now ours. We are playing on their negative
playing field, on their terms, and by their rules. When we choose not
to be offended or hurt, there is no magnetic connection and so we don’t
take on another’s problem or create a problem that isn’t really there.
You don’t have to be offended, it’s up to you. But for those who are
easily offended I can only say:
It’s a human waste product, walk away."
