What is the best opinion of all time? The show kicked off with a fistfight. A man leapt down from a tree with a scythe and went to town, slicing air primarily, as he was a Jainist. The woman who was the brains of the program, its architect and shadow host, took rapid notes in a leather-bound journal whose spine identified it, puckishly, as “The Holy Bible.” And then the opinions started to roll up the aisle: political, philosophical, culinary, sexual, aesthetic less often than would have been assumed, increasingly cultural-representational, some about the weather, some about the relative appeal of different breeds of dog, and finally pinpoint ethical assessments of specific humans in specific situations, current and historical both. The welter ended. The judges were wheeled out. The woman who was the brains of the program cued them one by one. The audience fell silent. What was the best opinion of all time?
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