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RE: I'm not too proud of what the world is becoming

in #life7 years ago (edited)

Many people have this bizarre supposition, that when they write, debate or argue, that they are right. I used the word bizarre with weight and deliberance because to be 'right' is in my experience unheard of. If there was a right and wrong way of thinking, the world would already have migrated to the right way because it would be self fulfilling.
What we all have is an opinion, and its right-ness or wrong-ness is contextual. Have you ever noticed how polititions rarely ever actually say anything? Thats because they know empty rhetoric is much safer than trying to be right, they know that in 99.9999999999999% of situations 'right' is not only unknowable, but unacheivable.

We seem to be at a stage where many people feel their opinions must be heard, and that they must be right, simply because the thoughts come from their own mind. Its curious that one of the most important figures in philosophy (as far as we know) only asked questions, and never gave answers, he was of course Socrates. Unsurprizingly that made him about as popular then as asking questions does today, and he ran significantly foul of the establishment, which lead to his death.

So perhaps people need to remember what the word opinion means, and stop considering everything they think and feel as being made of pure gold.

Or, maybe Im wrong...

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No, that's a dead honest answer. What I write is opinion, it's no set in stone truth. I'm just a guy mulling through life making sense of it all myself. Most people are. There is no right or wrong in my mind, only emotion and decisions that can turn out for the better or worse.

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