Everything's subjective.
Your taste in toothpaste.
Modern art.
Corner baths.
The potential for humanity.
Warren Buffets' stock picks.
Everything.
So take Warren. He's one of the world's richest men. Why exactly?
Is his opinion dismissed by a sceptic with a "That's just your opinion" or "Well that's just subjective"?
Well no, because he's right. More often than he's wrong. He is 'subjective good'.
The same goes for Da Vinci, Picasso, Tony Hadley.
If someone tells you that's subjective, they are doing you down. I believe that is now abbreviated to dissing.
"That's just your opinion" they bleat: a phrase that is "That's subjective"-Lite!
They are still looking snootily look down their metaphorical noses at you. It is a deflationary policy and it is laser-targetted at your inner spirit.
It's rude, judgemental and outside the scope of useful debate.
Imagine hearing that phrase 3 times a minute on Question Time.
Boring. Pointless.
You may be offering a lifelong opinion based on deep valid personal experience. And "they" are valuing their own knee-jerk response to your information/proposal as if their opinion is of equal value.
Hugely arrogant. Ask Warren. Although he'd be too nice to point it out.
Better still, don't hang around with these people.
You don't want to surround yourself with Yes Men but there's a balance.
Justice says they should not get away with it. But don't resort to violence unless they do it twice.
Just Notice. Next time someone tells you what your opinion is , notice.
Their nanosecond of thought has crystallised their opinion and delivered their verdict.
If that's not arrogance I have no idea what is. But it is purely theirs.
Opinion is fast becoming a sin.
Strongly express it and you should be silenced.
And you thought racism was one of the last taboos. Think on. We have done that one to death.
It's great to be free.
So are you subjective right. Or subjective wrong?
Because all opinions are not equal.
I am sorry to tell you this but it's best you heard it from me.
Stay away from the 'that's just your opinion' folks in life.They feed like leeches.
Life becomes about whom you share a room with.
Pay attention to it.
And it was an hour earlier at the weekend but maybe the sun won't rise tomorrow.
Maybe the tide won't come in.
Get out there and rock the boat today.
Shake a few of these limp limpets off.
