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Post by Somak Meitei on Aug 6, 2015 12:11:48 GMT 5.5
What a self-opinionated person thinks is often beyond the universality, because though he manages to do something without making any error, it is sure that he does it erroneously. To err is human. He sticks to what he thinks whether it is wright or wrong. It is good that he struggles to show that what he thinks is the best of all showing off his desirability of holding supremacy over others' ways of thinking. It is all because of his understanding that he never attempts to discover what is behind what he thinks.
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Aug 6, 2015 14:24:33 GMT 5.5
Dictionaries reflect the attitudes of the times and "self-opinionated" and its synonym "opinionated" are defined with a usage note "disapproving." Yes, dictionary definitions are provided along how we commonly understand words/things, and they are useful; however, to the careful few, each word needs to have a specific sense when it enters a specific semantic context. For example, A may label B as "self-opinionated" because B thinks of A as such while A may not be so. Very firmly grounded views and opinions are hard to change because they take roots in a system of other views, beliefs and opinions which are regarded valid or standard. It often takes disproving the root, underlying assumptions or beliefs to disprove the view or opinion that stands on it. Whatever standard view there is, be it in culture or science or philosophy, that is very deep-seated in a ground of a larger system. So, for any view to hold good in society, it has to be a deep-rooted one.
Therefore, it is not necessarily bad for an opinion to be so deep-rooted that you find it very hard or almost impossible to change in a person you talk with. Rather nothing sound and stable comes out of sloppy floating set of ideas. I think firmly rooted views are essential to a society's stability and it often turns out that those who have the deepest of convictions in their own principles are the society's pillars.
However, as civilization is not a finished and closed condition, and no human individual represents the roof of possible human knowledge. Therefore, cultures and the individuals constituting those cultures need keep the lid open. And the idea for change can come from anywhere, including the most unlikely or unexpected of all quarters. While it is a virtue to remain firm on one's stand until one is convinced otherwise, it is not a sign of a growth-compatible mind to be bigotedly determined not to change even when one is disproved clearly. |
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Aug 6, 2015 14:36:32 GMT 5.5
Most societies are dominated by conformists, but nothing extraordinary comes from conformists. Conformists often label people with firm views of things as "self-opinionated" just because these people don't release their hold of their conviction. Yes, self-opinionated people are diehards of their own views but not all diehards of their own views are self-opinionated in the sense the word is defined in dictionaries. |
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