What makes me think that anyone in their right mind (and that could be the key to the question) would give a hoot about my opinion? And yet, here I sit blogging myself silly. It could just as easily have been called "opinionating."
I'm not full of facts. Oh, I know some things, but I couldn't tell you that I'm going to sway any one person to a point of view because of the astounding command I have of facts and figures. I only have my opinion, but through the magic of this blog server I can offer up every little nugget of sludge and drivel that I can think of on a host of topics. And you, my friend, have come along and are willingly reading this and thinking, "geez, what a jerk." Well, you my friend, are the putz because you're willingly reading it. Just think, by the end of this post, you could be stupider than when you started. All because you read my blog.
Unfortunately, I think this is what we've become: a nation of opinions based on little more than our gut feeling and upbringing (although I'm certain some things have my parents rolling in their respectie graves, God rest their souls when they're through spinning.)
"Well, that's just the way I feel."
"Well, I may not know much, but I know how I feel about ...."
"Hey, I'm no expert, but..."
So here I sit both pronouncing my opinion and, at the same time, decrying the fact that
I can so easily express it. Is this a great, ironic country or what?
The beauty of these bloggy things is that they're not a meritocracy. I am not compelled to stop blogging because nobody reads my posts. If this were a business, I'd be broke by now because so few people read my stuff; so few people really even know about it. But it's not a business. So I can just keep on flapping my fingers and if you happen to fall into my blog (and out of the gazillions of things that are on the internet to capture your attention, if you fell into this you really have my sympathy) you'll read some of it. You might even be intrigued for a moment or two.
And then, with any luck, you'll realize that I'm just as full of c--p as the next guy and go back to hunting for porn.
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I suspect this much: Most guys who are full of c__p don't express themselves as intelligently as you do.
Intelligence which would, of course, tend to indicate that you're NOT full of c__p.
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