The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Do I care what you think?
In most cases I do.
BUT….
Without research, if you choose to espouse on a topic of which you know nothing and of which you have done zero research, why is your opinion important?
Well, it might be that your life experience gives you cause or reason to have a valid and unique perspective on the topic.
Or perhaps, your artistic perspective casts the topic in an entirely new and creative light.
Or perhaps, because you know absolutely nothing about the topic, your virgin mind space on the subject makes you uniquely qualified to make an unbiased comment.
BUT…. What if your only source of information is so completely non-factual, and you are so entirely brainwashed by their propaganda as to make almost anything that you say, irrelevant?
At that point, does your opinion carry any weight in my world?
In actuality, it has to. Not because what you are saying is relevant, but because there are enough people like you who are all living in a massive delusion and collectively, your voting power can bring down our entire democracy.
Marcus Aurelius was a very compelling leader. I find many of his quotations highly relevant even today. That said, he was not up against cable TV. He had more than his own share of complications and enemies to face in battle, but the massive brainwashing that we are up against today is an entirely different type of foe to be countered.
Happy Saturday!
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