Just stupid

Let’s go ahead and retire the dumbest thing we’ve ever said

I’ve got a beef. Chances are it’s with you. Sorry, it’s really nothing personal. It’s just that I think you sound ridiculous. Just sayin’.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind disagreeing. In fact, I encourage it oftentimes. I think we should have a much more robust sense of debate and forum in our culture instead of our hypersensitive baby-ism in which our feelings are perennially in repair due to someone thinking a thought that doesn’t perfectly jive with our own. So if we disagree, let’s disagree. How about you actually believe what you say instead of immediately back peddling? Just sayin’.

Cause you do in fact have an opinion, don’t you? Or do you have a hollowed out something or other that you simply let cultural bias, pressure groups, and/or the trending media fill in with what they think, thus requiring your half-hearted idea to be immediately preceded with an escape clause? Just sayin’.

I’ve seen it on Twitter(#Obviously), on the news (CNN’s New Day), and in sports reporting (Bob Costas’ spiel during week 16's SNF). I’ve heard it in conversation, overhead it on phone calls, and seen it in articles. I’ve had, heard, seen, and read enough of it. If you say “just sayin’” then please, please stop. Immediately. Lest you continue to sound like a fool. Just sayin’.

Mean what you say. Say what you mean. Or shut up. Get a conviction, grab some gall, and speak up. Or keep silent. Say something meaningful enough and with appropriate clarity such that you don’t have to clarify, in an entirely non-sensical fashion, that you were “just sayin’” something.

The phrase is annoying to hear. It makes no real sense. But the worst part of it all is that it is indicative of how little we care about what we say when compared to our desire to simply say something.

We don’t care about being worth hearing so long as we’re heard. We aren’t concerned with having a point, just having a voice. We are swimming around in the convoluted ‘conversations’ of our culture gurgling out idiotic phrases as if we have to hit some sort of quota.

We have yet to realize that speaking our mind isn’t the same as actually thinking before we speak. So on and on we drone, mindlessly dozing off into idiocy, lulled by the sound of our own voice.

So please, I beg, start saying things that are worth saying and that require no half-hearted, scape-goat apology within the very same breath. Cause if you don’t value your words very much then why should I? Just sayin’.