What is opinion?
After reading far too many philosophy books – I won’t give an exact number because it would scare you…it scares me even thinking about it, which I am now doing, just as I said I wouldn’t –I have come to the conclusion that opinion is something which changes in every second of our lives. I used to think that an opinion was something we carried with us constantly, a thing which is unchangeable, but the truth – what I believe, anyway – is that opinion is a shape-shifting animal. This makes it very hard to pin-down, which can be troublesome at times! (Even my opinion on opinion itself has changed since I started writing this…you see how complicated it is? Ah! My brain hurts…)
every second we are awake we are being fed yet more information and making new decisions and having even more hopes and dreams
Let’s look at an example. As if my name was Lucy and I was going out into town to buy some sexy underwear (and no, I’m not just using this persona because I want to go about in a sexy clothes shop where women are, but it definitely helps!)
I arrive and wander through the pink-framed door straight to the Lace Fabrics section. For some bizarre reason, all the women are only wearing bra and panties. Lucy likes this, yes!
Anyway, her opinion on lace was simple before she arrived: she had seen it on TV and in a catalogue and loved it.
But what’s this…as Lucy explores the shop she sees that actually, the lace isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! She tries some new panties on – in this shop you are allowed to, so there – and finds they chafe her. So she takes them off and decides to go about without her knickers for the rest of the day.
And so Lucy has changed her mind about lace. Something unthinkable that feels weird, but true!
And this is how my opinion on opinion is, and how yours probably is, too. Because every second we are awake we are being fed yet more information and making new decisions and having even more hopes and dreams. Such is the complex animal that is the human.
There ends my rant. But what do you think? And can you trust what you think, really? (Ps: weirdly, my opinion on opinion seems to have stalled now. But not to worry. I expect it’ll change into a completely different animal any second…and there it is. I knew it’d happen eventually.)
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