 What is the author's central point about the increased frequency of expletive use in western society?
Maledict oratory The high costs of low language. Blasphemy would be closer to it. Thirty years earlier, almost to the week, Tynan was interviewed on BBC television in his capacity as literary director of Britain's National Theater and asked if he would allow the theater to present a play in which sex took place on stage. "I think there are very few rational people in this world to whom the word '[expletive]' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden." Within 24 hours, resolutions had been introduced in the House of Commons calling for his prosecution on charges of obscenity, for his removal as a theater official, and for censure of the network for allowing an obscene word to go out on the airwaves. To much of ordinary Britain, he became the man who had said "[expletive]" on the BBC. "It's live television," NBC Vice President Ed Markey said, rationalizing the outbursts. "It's an emotional moment. Swearing isn't the only public act that Western civilization condones today but didn't 30 years ago. "In that case, we're [expletive] ," he says. Twenty years ago, he would have said, "We're in big trouble." Societal tolerance of profanity requires us to increase our dosage as time goes on. By the time they have reached the end of the line of children, they have tossed off a whole catalog of obscenities I did not even hear until I was well into adolescence, let alone use in casual conversation on a public street.
 It has no correlation with crime but a positive correlation with acceptance of the taboo
 It represents mass disillusionment in ideals that were once central to a well-functioning society  It will inevitably result in an increase in crime and socially unacceptable behaviors  It has no correlation with crime but a positive correlation with acceptance of the taboo  It will bring about a new era of creativity and innovation in the years to come