Everyone’s Entitled… Or Are They?
// August 8th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // My Thoughts
I have to say that I just about fell out of my chair laughing when I read the “Onion” article that stated “Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion“ But It really got me thinking… I am a pretty opinionated person, so how many of my opinions are actually not mine? Well truthfully I rarely just pick up an opinion and begin using it for my own… most often the reason for this is that I am a bit egotistical i guess…I like figuring things out on my own. I seek out truth at all costs… the result, I may actually be entitled to my opinions… not that they are great or even very accurate but in most circumstances my opinions are mine and mine alone. However this is not so true for the average person I rub shoulders with… Call me an egotist if you like, but I rarely meet individuals that actually think for themselves these days… in general they seem to just jump on somebody’s band wagon and hang on for the ride. Most commonly I find people regurgitating the opinions of talk radio hosts, activists, TV personalities, and they often are intensely confrontational and outspoken and feel very strongly about “their” opinions. Like the staunch conservatives that are protesting the health care reform, they talk about “socialized medicine” and “single payer plans”. And yet have no problems avoiding a co-pay for immunizations by going to a county health clinic to get them for free… something wrong there… right? So where are you in this? do you just quote Rush Limbaugh or some other outspoken personality that has whipped you into a furor about a certain subject? You have to know that politics these days depend on the gullible public to believe in the hype surrounding an ideology and rarely provide accurate facts. This forces people to make decisions based on “feelings” rather than on “facts” so if everyone “feels good” about a war… then we can be at war for 20 years and no one will complain… but alas if some soldiers die, well then people start feeling bad about things… so they no longer want to be at war.
I am not trying to be insensitive here… I just think that a lot of people need to begin pulling their head out of the sand and realize that the majority of the US population is manipulated spiritually, religiously, psychologically, and physically through fear, and misinformation. It is an old trick that if you want to advance an agenda then you need to get people upset about something else. Once they are focused on your distraction then they rarely recognize that something else more sinister is going on… It is called “diversion” So the next time that someone gets you all worked up about something… you need to think about what might actually be going on in the background.
Just take a moment and be honest with yourself… are you really entitled to your opinion? or are you just borrowing someone else’s
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