The Stoics saw opinion as the source of most misery. It’s what takes objective situations and makes them good, bad, wrong, unfair, essential, deserved or outrageous. It’s also what takes things that have nothing to do with us and makes them problems for us.
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What surprises me is the capacity for people to have strong opinions and positions on issues while knowing almost nothing about them. Sometimes not bothering to do even very basic research. Too many conversations are just about pushing narratives.
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What if opinions form spontaneously as nature runs tumbles down the entropic hill & they're subject to selection & the thing that's changed today is that instead of having little puddles of opinion, we have a boiling memetic primordial soup
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Corollary: don't take your opinions personally
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I have an opinion on that.
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I disagree. (I will let myself out now. Tip your waitresses!)
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And that your opinion should be worth something to others because you happen to have it.
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Certainly not an opinion on everything, but those issues that count.
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What matters to people is subjective
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Never know when you’re gonna get called on to Fox or CNN! I’m sure the producers just scour twitter for hot takes from accounts like mine with less than 55 followers
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