The Keys to Knowledge

Most people seem to think that their opinion is just as good as anyone’s. That is not necessarily true. “you have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes”….and all that.

You have a point of view. You are allowed to express your opinion. That does not make your opinion truth. It certainly doesn’t make your opinion the ‘handed down from on high’ truth.

I credit the news media in part for this phenomenon. Talking heads often express a point of view as truth, and we, as the public, eat it up and treat it as proven and will defend it if challenged.

I have known a LOT of people that love dispensing medical advice, though they know absolutely nothing about medicine. This is exactly the kind of shit I am talking about.

Everyone wants to spout off about politics and what we should do about this problem and that problem. I doubt that 99.9% have enough background or information to make a rational decision, but they are happy to share their opinion with you anyway. Then they pass it off as the only acceptable solution.

You have a point of view, not the keys to all knowledge. Get over it. It is time we all realized that we are as subject to subjective reasoning as anyone else.

The sooner that we realize that we are fallible and accept it emotionally the sooner we will be able to make better and more informed decisions in all things. The first step is in knowing that you don’t know everything.