Opinionated – And Proud to Admit It
Stephen Bayley,
The Telegraph,
Dec 02, 2003
Why OLDaily is more that 'just the facts': "Opinions make you think, or at least stop you being stupid. Or perhaps, less charitably, help to disguise it. Certainly, whatever the interpretation, they provide comfort. Sometimes, passionately held opinions are stupid ones. But Wittgenstein believed that if people never did stupid things, nothing intelligent would ever happen." So the next time you roll your eyes and say, "Man, that Downes was stupid today," think about the process that put that thought into your head, and which led, therefore, to the formation of your (no doubt correct) opinion.
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