We all have them. Even the most laid-back, chilled-out, go-with-the-flow dude you know has got some lurking in dark dusty corners of their unkempt souls.... thats right....
Opinions. Ah, the mere word conjures horrified images of wacked-out caffeine freaks shouting their hatred of all things living and dead at you in the grocery store, of the over-zealous Christians who sing obnoxious songs and yell at you about Jesus on the sidewalk... even the meeklings who never see light at Starbucks take it upon themselves to tell you what THEY suggest -- as if you'd care.
Opinions have been highly overrated these days... what happens when we pay people for emptying their brains onto unsuspecting folk below? Rush Limbaugh! Ann Coulter! It's folks like these that give opinions such a bad rap. But are they really that horrible?
I mean, of course we can't just treat every opinion like it's equal, this is America for God sakes. But why do we all hate opinions so much? Is it really the opinions, or is it the act of them being forced upon us? Thats all we ever rely on, in truth. Who's opinion do we value most? The President's! We let him make the calls... "It's my opinion we go to war in Iraq." Bingo! It's done.
Then what? Politicians? Hardly. I'd name the media next in this opinion hierarchy. Talk shows first... and people like Katie Couric, or Bill O'Reilly. Then the news, Fox, MSNBC. Then maybe after that, politicians (but I'm still voting for the Girl Scout Committee before them)...
See how it all works? Its a system, but like a lot of new winning mottos in this country, we need a change. I say we should start showing opinions for what they really could be! Let's not get so down on them, let's lift them up! We have got to re-innovate opinions.
I intend to start here.
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