Sick

What is going on in this world. In a recent visit to the UK I over heard some young boys in Southend saying that something was 'Sick' - and it sounded like they were saying that it looked 'cool.' 


The problem with that is that it was not cool at all. It was a BBC 'cool zone' truck with a few games and some modern music with some graffiti sprayed here and there to appear cool and hip with the 'kids' - but it was some sort of recruitment drive for a college or a job or something  (so totally not cool at all).


But even if it was cool - to call it sick is just messed up right there. 
First the 'youth' called things 'Bad' - which meant good. 
Then things were 'Wicked' - which meant good. 
Then they were 'safe' which meant good (or sound). 
Things were also 'Killer' which meant good. 


I looked at the Urban Dictionary and got this definition for sick:


SICK

1)crazy, cool, insane 

1)man, that trick was sick yo


I thought it was a UK thing - but then I was watching Megamind and the 'Hal' character is trying to invite his lady reporter co-worker round for a date and he said it would be 'Sick' (as in cool). 


So sick has entered the common language to mean good. But how did this happen? - I mean who makes this stuff up?


Did some twisted individual think it would be funny get young people to call things 'Sick'.


I mean it is bad enough for young people engaged in TXT language. GR8! C U TMZ
It's like NEWSPEAK out of George Orwell's 1984. 


So instead of humanity busting the limits of vocabulary and calling things marvelous, beautiful, excellent, splendid, wonderful, magnificent, superb,glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, smashing, great, amazing, super, fantastic, terrific, tremendous, sensational, heavenly, divine,gorgeous, grand, fabulous, fab, awesome, to die for, magic, ace, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, far out, out of this world,brilliant 
- they instead call them 'Sick'.


I guess you could apply this to other areas - instead of young people appreciating the emotional beauty or complicated structure of a classical piece - they instead listen to repetitive beats and mindless lyrics of Lady Gaga (or similar modern music). 


I guess it just is not cool to reach for excellence - never has been I guess. 
It's time for people to reject cool!
Just because it's cool - it does not make it right...