 What would the author say about the impact of swearing on our current society?
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. Swearing isn't the only public act that Western civilization condones today but didn't 30 years ago. But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness. What is important is that profanity served a variety of purposes for a long time in Western culture.
 it is unhealthy for our society to have powerless swear words
 it is important for our culture to continue to grow accustomed to using swear words  our feeling about swearing now shows a more educated society  we have more rebels than we used to  it is unhealthy for our society to have powerless swear words