I remember as if it was yesterday how during one class in graduate school, the professor prompted every student to provide their honest opinion on a matter that the passage of time has relegated to oblivion.
Fact is that all of us took the opportunity to give their own two cents on an issue, that in my mind, merited more than a minute or so of thinking. After doing the rounds, the professor managed to take stock of the mental acuity of those present in the classroom, determining who had what for brains.
I seem to remember myself exiting the room on my way to the bathroom and exclaiming soft enough hoping to keep my opinion to myself but loud enough to fail to do so, since one or two colleagues overheard me.
And while I may not take as deep a pleasure now than then, this is what I exclaimed sotto voce:
Opinions are like assholes: everybody’s got one!
Judging after the reactions of my two fellow students, I did not win their hearts and minds that day. Although in retrospect I wouldn’t put it past them that they silently might have agreed with me.
To this day, I am of the same opinion. But today more than ever I have come to respect this catchy saying.
You have to. There’s no other way to see the world. One thing that democracy promoted is the foolish notion that everyone is entitled to their opinion. Be that as it may but if we truly believed that, we would end up having surgeons flying airplanes, and politicians running and teaching classrooms. Incidentally, the latter does happen. But it shouldn’t. Not even indirectly.
Just because you draw air doesn’t give you the right to offend reason by claiming outrageous things. No. I refuse to believe that anyone can say anything just because they are alive.
It is thus that rational thought is submerged under the soul-crushing weight of moronic ejaculations.
For each person endowed by the Creator with the wherewithal necessary for developing a cogent thought worthy of utterance in the public arena, there are 50 cretins whose vociferations drown any chance for that unique idea to float to the surface and reach the light of day.
Unfortunately for the human race, we are condemned to an existence that makes Patience the supreme virtue required to survive an environment full of orifices whose primary function is to spout refuse, literally and figuratively.
In order to navigate such a dreary existence, one must educate oneself and aspire for excellence as it is the only measure by which one can raise oneself by one’s bootstraps, in this shitty world of ours.
A piece of advice to ya’ll. When people, and there will be a lot of them, tell you you don’t have the cards, or the chance to get out of the swamp of incompetence, because odds are against you, feel free to tell them to engage in sexual congress with themselves. Odds are they intend to do that anyway, and drive humanity even below its current depth of stupidity.
And speaking of odds, do you know what they are?
Odds are something that the ordinary use as incentive or excuse.
Smart people do not care about odds. Smart people care about facts. And smart people get smarter by studying the world around them and learning about it. Just like stupid people get even more stupid by persisting in their ignorance.
In the end, opinions and orifices abound and that is what it is. Recognize the meritorious ones and pay no mind to the ordinary. You’ll get by just fine.
Götterdämmerung 