In the Age of the Imbecile [recommended read for first time visitors: “What Is the Age of the Imbecile?” ], opinion has become an undisputed authority per se dominating every human discourse. Facts are rendered obsolete.
The children of Imbecile declaim:
Be gone—‘scientific method’—with your exasperating so-called ‘empirical evidence’!
Be gone—rational assumptions and hypotheses—we’ve far more important tasks at hand in our fast-paced world than rationalizing your validity!
Be gone—wisdom—for, in the realm of ignorance, we wallow in comfortably in the swamps of our imbecility!
Done, we are, with that feeble divinity called ‘Reason’! No shrine, nor altar shall be erected in its honor; for like a common impotent mortal it was slain—its death came at our hands—aye! And, with the same we have affixed its tombstone to the ground!
Our opinions reign supreme!
In discussions, debates, and disputes, ‘this is my opinion’ is the Excalibur a speaker wields to balance the scales, and demolish any line of reasoning that the other party has previously established.
It has become inherently sacrosanct that no one—not a king, nor a president—not anyone—dares to question much less demur whatsoever is annexed thereto.
Still, what is really meant by ‘this is my opinion’?
To put it simply, it is the contemporary expression by the means of which one could ask someone to shut up without uttering the actual words.
How is it so?
Nowadays, everyone has something to say about everything. Whether they may possess the faintest inclination towards the subject or not; have any a-posteriori experience or a-priori knowledge thereof; or, have any stake in its outcome; they happen to manage to have an opinion on it.
The point of dispute herein is not the individual’s entitlement to an opinion; rather, that such entitlement is often interpreted as a legitimized prerogative to distort facts and truths—even to dismiss reason entirely.
How is it possible for someone to prescribe medicine for a certain ailment—under the pretext of opinion—if one has never attended medical school, conducted any research, or educated oneself on medicine?
One would dare wager that every reader has, at some point, encountered a situation where unqualified individuals do actually go about the task of prescribing medications, whilst either beginning their speech with ‘I think’, or concluding it with ‘this is my opinion, anyways’.
Normally, ‘this is my opinion, anyways’ follows the case for disqualification the recipient has made.
Thereupon, that statement serves as an artful play-on-words—a substitute for ‘you have no right to refute my argument any further—so, why don’t you shut up?!’
The danger, however, lies in the universality of that practice. It has reached a ridiculously absurd state, to the extent that some might assert an opinion, where the falsehood of which is readily apparent to the meanest intelligence.
‘You shouldn’t be eating food X. It is my opinion, anyways.’
Now, unless an answer to why the recipient should refrain from eating food X is supplied at some stage of the dialogue, the above guidance is nothing but an insular meddling in another person’s business; all the while ‘instructing’ them not to raise any objection; that is, in fine, to shut up.
At the crescendo of all this nonsensical imbecility enshrined a most blasphemous—against God and man—so-called ‘opinion’:
“Those who attend the disciplines of philosophy and psychology in depth lose their minds.”
Imbecile, himself, laughs at this: “even I never dared entertaining such an idiotic thought—lest Zeus has my head on a spike.”
In what sense is it anyhow remotely possible for someone who attends the human mind and its functions—much less the spring of all knowledge i.e. wisdom—to lose their mind? One would wonder whether the utterer of those words have a mind of their own, in the first place.
The absurdity of opinion is therein self-evident!
In a nutshell, the curse of opinion stems from the fact that the prefix ‘qualified’ has been omitted.
Poor Reason! How could he rest in peace while his murderers are celebrated and rewarded with ‘entitlement’?
Only the progeny of Imbecile are entitled to their opinion—be it qualified or not.
