“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of them ready to be wished upon anyone willing to accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” while you have reached a decision of action, you will not succeed in any undertaking”.(Napoleon Hill)
“Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner”(Lao Tzu)
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”(Plato)
Do you consider the opinions of others, or do you hear simple noise around you? They say wisdom is allied with age, so presumably, seniors should be intelligent lot. Our lived experiences grant us the privilege to speak with the hope that someone may be listening, and considering what they hear. Opinions are golden, gifts to the wise and stupid alike, and possible advice given with an invoice attached. Payment is found in how others respond to one’s opinion, positively or not so much.
I have many opinions, but those most striking are of authoritarian ideology, regimes, and personalities that simply piss me off. I have experienced horrid actions against others in North Africa, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. Authoritarian personalities are rich, poor, working class, slim, overweight, brown, black, white, or Asian. They come in every shape, size, and color, but they remain the same in character and how they treat others.
Bullies – insecure personalities – celebrity-struck – attracted to power, money, and influence.
We have family members who are authoritarian, as to some police and politicians as well. Everyone meets someone so pushy and demanding, forever trying to get you to do something you do not want to do. A person can be quiet, observant, and living in solitude from others as well, and suddenly something happens and that person breaks forth enthusiastic about an idea, event, or purpose. Hitler was such a man, withdrawn until he gathered others to his solution to loneliness, and founded Nazism. The little guy could now push others around, a bully by any other name. The authoritarianism within others maybe also within you. It is only natural for us to want to acquire and fan the challenge of popularity. It is only when your hope and desire for popularity and forcing yourself upon others are controlled by your intelligence, morality, and good nature. And when someone is denied what they wish and crave, they become angry and then hateful.
I write about the Chinese Communist Government, its goals, and its purpose within this world of ours. To achieve prominence and complete power. The dream of every authoritarian regime, organization, and personality. Well, I think my letters are effective and strike at the hearts of our opponents. How do I know this you may ask? Well at my home, and at my place of business we have received phone calls demanding that I stop projecting my opposition to China-Russia-Other Dictatorial Nations. I ask my fellow citizens to stop buying from China and become more selective in what, where, and how those items are made. Support Taiwan and China’s neighbors like Vietnam, Singapore, and Japan, nonaggressive friendlier nations. I have been attacked online, hacked, and threatened. A bully uses verbal attacks before they move on to more physical actions. I have been called racist by the Chinese Government( accused by a truly racist Muslim/Ethnic group-hating regime like China). I speak about the folly of Ukraine and other freedom-craving movements to not trusting America and The West’s promises of defense and brotherhood. The Hungarians, Czechs, Afghans, Southern Vietnamese, Rwandans, Egyptian and Iranian Freedom movements, and Cubans all heard America’s promises of assistance and defense but were allowed to suffer at the hands of tyrants.
Your opinion means something folks. If the noise you make becomes loud enough, and your efforts to achieve good things make others aware and participate in our democratic movement, your opinion has become a life-giving gift to others.
“Most of the great and important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all”(Dale Carnegie).
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
skaszab@yahoo.ca
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