June 23, 2023 – A

I'm interested in where opinions originate
and how they proliferate,
and what they do on their days off.

I've noticed that they are everywhere people are,
and that everyone has more than they need,
so they keep trying to give them away
to anybody who will relieve them of the burden,
but nobody wants more opinions,
and never heeds them
or pays them any attention,
but attempt to return the favor
by offering up their own,
which generates more opinions
just by being aired.

So I have devised a theory,
that may, itself, be "nothing more 
than an opinion"--
Which is another thing,
opinions are always decried
as being "nothing more than an opinion,"
when everybody has nothing else to offer.

Why don't they get themselves some facts?
And argue about them?
But, that gets us into
how anyone could argue about facts?

If we had more facts and fewer opinions,
the world would be a lot quieter place,
with everyone having less to say
and being quite content with the facts
at hand,
but that gets me back to my theory
that opinions are generated/created/manufactured
by being stated
in a ping-pong ball being dropped onto
mousetraps holding ping-pong balls kind of way,
and like that opinions are flying in all directions
spontaneously/instantaneously.

They are self-generating, eternally-perpetuating,
constantly-birthing-propagating-spawning-breeding
themselves into being by word of mouth!

We get rid of them by not saying anything.

And if that means we have nothing to say,
we will be able to explore the silence
and discover what we have been missing
all these years!

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