WILL.I.AM's comment on Einstein

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

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Wow. You nailed it. There's a greater meaning behind cuss words, and this meaning is what gives them an impact that can't be written off purely as repugnant vulgarity. These words humanize us. They represent the intimacy between the cusser and those around them, as weird as that sounds. Most importantly, will.I.am's words humanize FIRST, and they humanize FRC. We all love the façade of being this perfect community of gracious professionalism and whatnot, but we're all people. We all make mistakes (not that what he said was a mistake, actually quite the contrary), we all have emotions and we all let those emotions affect our actions. We're FIRSTers, but we are also people. We're all people who've cussed once in a while (some more than others) and it's part of what makes us human.

Will.I.am showed that he is enthusiastic about FIRST on a deeply personal level, so much so that he was comfortable speaking in front of 40,000 people in a manner that one would only speak around those closest to them. My perception of his relationship with FIRST before his speech was that it was largely for marketing, a mutually beneficial agreement between will.I.am and FIRST for PR's sake. However, I now see him as a dedicated member of the FIRST community, one who's deep-seeded love for FIRST matches the love for FIRST within me.