How Original Are Original Writings?
To a certain extent, readers are fed knowledge that their feeder (read: writer) was fed by a feeder who was fed by another feeder, who too was fed by another.
Everything written on a subject, say, marketing, is either an opinion or a fact. And both facts and opinions are subject to one’s knowledge (or lack thereof).
We were born with minds void of knowledge, thus, the little that we know, we found.
Are we, as a people, entitled to ownership of our knowledge, even though, everything that man knows was taught by another man?
That’s to say, when I share an opinion, do I really own that opinion?
(I don’t know about you, but there was a time I couldn’t count up to one.)
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— August 2, 2010.