The concept of garbage is used in colloquial language in various ways. The term may refer to garbage or waste .
For example: “The beach is full of rubbish, the authorities should do something to combat pollution” , “I don't like my son playing in the square surrounded by the rubbish that people throw” , “I can't believe there is so much “filth floating in the lake.”
The notion of rubbish is also used to refer to objects of little value and those that are broken or very old and, therefore, do not work properly: “I'm not going to spend much for his birthday, I'm going to buy him some rubbish.” “This machine is crap, I need to replace it with a more modern one,” “Before I go on a trip I'm going to have to take this crap to the mechanic's shop.”
An unhealthy food and something that is not pleasant or satisfying , meanwhile, can be mentioned as garbage: “Since I don't like to cook, I spend my time eating crap that I buy on the street,” “I found the German band's new album crap” , “I try to get my teenage son to eat lunch at home so he doesn't consume so much crap” .
In addition, a dishonest , rude or immoral action is called filth: “I got angry with my cousin because he did something filthy to me” , “I don't want filth in the company” , “Go with your filth somewhere else, here we are honest people” .
The negative connotation of filth can be clearly seen in the tango “Cambalache” , written by Enrique Santos Discépolo . Its lyrics begin like this: “That the world was and will be a mess, I already know, / in 506 and in 2000 too.” To justify this allusion to “filth” , he then comments on the lack of morality in society .
In short, we can say that the term crap refers to a series of images that may all be very different, but what they have in common is that they generate very negative sensations in the sender. In effective communication, furthermore, the interlocutor should also perceive this displeasure and feel it in the first person, thanks to the action of empathy.
Saying that “the world was and will be a mess” is expressing a very pessimistic statement since, in some way, it means that there is no hope for our species. This idea is a matter of debate, like any other subjective observation or opinion , but it is based on certain aspects of our history that are undeniable: human beings can be murderers, rapists, thieves, exploiters, selfish and traitors, among other extremely negative qualities. that corrode societies until they plunge into misery.
Of course, there are different degrees of rejection for the things we adjective in this way. For example, if we say that our car is rubbish but this does not cause us discouragement but rather we accept it as part of our reality, then the force of this concept is less than in the case of tango: we could refer to it as "junk." or other nouns that, although derogatory, can be used with a certain "affection."
When we disqualify the content of a website, on the other hand, because we claim that "it is full of crap", the dislike or lack of approval is halfway between the example of the car and that of the tango: perhaps it is composed of poorly written articles, based on unreliable or invented sources, whose information is not relevant to us and, as if this were not enough, the design is poorly conceived and is filled with advertising; but it doesn't hurt anyone. In this way, it may be rubbish for us, but a source of entertainment for others; A harmful person, on the other hand, is not good for anyone.