Spooky

Nothing is more terrifying than losing control.

In my opinion, opinions are dangerous. 

I mean, are we just going to let people think things?

And then will we let the people who thunk the things share those things that they just thunk with people who hadn’t thunk them yet?

[Side Tangent: 

I opine that people will start making stuff up.

Then what?

Do we just allow people to make up fictitious stories and share them under the label “fiction” in volumes of bound paper?

And then what? 

Will people just begin to imagine things uncontrollably? 

Will they invent things that don’t exist yet?

Will they begin to believe that the world can change?

Will they begin to notice tiny things like pebbles

that sometimes look like moosabatrosses

or sometimes look like unicorns

or sometimes look like someone’s uncle?

And if the pebble were to look like someone’s uncle

and then that imaginating person were to throw that 

pebble into a creek and the water in the creek 

were to splash and send ripples down the river

and disturb the very insect on the surface of the water

that a trout was fixing to eat in such a way that the insect 

were to move a twitch at exactly the wrong the moment

maybe that trout would starve.

Look, fiction kills. 

Possibly.

Tangent complete.]

Or or or, what?

Next thing you know, people will start opinionating in opinionated groups of opining opinionators and they’ll start opining their opinions in newspapers, next to the news in a section labeled, “opinions” and they’ll contextualize the fact-y parts of the news section and they’ll have little wordy fights about the correct contextualizations for the fact-y parts of the news and some of them may start writing in columns and they’ll call their editorialized opinionated opinions, “opinion columns” and they’ll write things in ways that make their readers think things and then the readers who think things will be able to write back to the opinionated columnists and they’ll be able to write words that opine that the opinions of the opinionated opiner were so, very misled because in their opinion, the context for the factual situation is ever so slightly 

different on account that the reader who is now a writer is writing from a position of authority and expertise in the field of the particular opinion so that other readers will have to read both sets of words in order to see the larger picture and unfortunately then the readers will have to think thoughts and out of those thoughts form opinions that may or may not agree with either the original opinion or the opinion of the opining reader who wrote.

And if people start doing that, then that means that the media company that prints the news won’t have as much control over the ideas and the thoughts that the people who read the news think.

And wouldn’t that just be terrible?

in opinionated opinion,

Courageously Anonymous