The Hamlet Project

I don’t do much swearing of this sort. But I do enjoy swear words, as do most people I know. There’s scientific evidence that swearing helps diminish pain. They did a study with ice and the group that swore could withstand the freezing pain significantly longer. I wonder if our cultural turning to swearing belies a pain that we’re attempting to diminish. If we can shout “FUCK!” loud enough, perhaps our angst will fade and disappear.