Living with technology has changed the course of human thoughts and life. Technology has allowed humans to help voice out, to be heard: the innate nature to be validated. I’m writing this hoping someone agrees with my thoughts and beliefs. It’s only human.
Let’s have a look of how human life as we know revolved with opinions(yes, I am researching at it as I write this).
Mesopotamia (Bronze age) 1 – The invention of writing, helped to “write” history. Currently reduced to emojis. Anyways, the first law codes were written and one of the famous was Hammurabi’s Code of Laws2. How does anything become a law? In a dictatorship well the dictator does or in a democracy a group of people does. But what is law? An opinion set in stone (in the days of yore). If you do look at the translation of Hammurabi’s laws one of the laws translates to “If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.” Not only this was validated at this time, but also was accepted.
What we see here is the first ever written opinion. We have normalized ourselves with the belief that a person without an opinion is weak. Our brain is wired to co-relate events, people, places etc to create an assumption/opinion (yes I say both because often we fool ourselves in believing that an assumption is a fact. Yay fake news!). And that is set in our grey matter. To be acknowledged of that result is the validation that everyone seeks.
Sometimes there is a very thin line between an opinion and a fact. If you see our human history, wars have been created over this (what were you expecting? I’m a cynic).
So what few minor/major factors in the creation of our opinions?
- Core Personality (duh?)
- Faith or No Faith
- Culture
- Fact/Fiction
- Media (audio, visual and written)
Yes, pretty obvious. But say these out loud and now think of an opinion you heard today or this week, that didn’t make any sense to you. Use the above factors and analyze their opinion. light bulbs? No this is not a self help blog, hey I’m seeking my validation. But if the bulb does light for you, I’m guessing it’s a good sign. You don’t have to like or accept their opinion but I’m guessing you can understand why they have their opinion.
If the small bulb lit in you, then it’s a giant leap for human understanding. Sure, I believe that (could I be more sarcastic?). So in my humble opinion regarding opinions, this is bound to cause more misery for humans like they have caused in the past (too dark?).
I’ll be lying to myself if I said that I am optimistic. But let’s be realistic, if you are willing to take the next step to understand the origin of an opinion. I think we have a better chance of stopping misunderstandings that can have horrific consequences.
I don’t debate much with people but that doesn’t mean I don’t have any opinions. This blog is an outlet of my views/opinions of life, world; well anything. I judge everyone and every event but my judgement doesn’t change my behavior towards anything. And I would love to be proven wrong.
Welcome to my brain.
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