No where is objectivity more self damning that when you use it to get your way with me.
The theme is simple, objectivity does not benefit anyone directly, hence the reason why it is so objective and unobjectionable. Western civilization has been particularly gifted at using this methodology to conquer exotic philosophies and principles so as to supplant them with its own. There is no people more objective and rational in the world than the western tribes. Of course the reason for their success has been that no one considers rational irrational or reason unreasonable or objectivity subjective. And yet, this is precisely what those things are. Objectivity would, for instance, never be objective enough to consider the possibility of its own subjectivity. Something that independently minded has no need to question its autonomy; and let us not forget that autonomy is the being root of all corruption and violence.
Jump into the box: If I ask you, Is rational a philosophy? Is reason a belief? Is objectivity a moral guide to the physical world? The resounding answers are yes, yes and yes. But somehow people got it into their head that these philosophies or methodological approaches to the world were and are more accurate and real than pimples on a sixteen year old. Mind you that there is far less evidence for rational than for pimples. This is because pimples create themselves while we create reason and objectivity.
In fact let us just climb down the hatch of reality, just pick one, anyone. Not so easy because you can have a religious conversion in one, a mystical experience in another and a logical revelation in yet another. Which one is valid depends on which one works for you. None more valid than that, and so you will attempt to objectify it to convince others that it is ok to eat the heart of your victims and make it your own. The dependence on belief is huge, and belief requires participation from the external world, we happen to think that there is an external world, even as that is a whole lot of impossible, but we believe that the external world must needs to believe us for what we sense and feel and that it must reproduce it to reaffirm the self, when the world does this we feel good about ourselves and less alone.
Unfortunately, and this is the unfortunate that matters, nothing is going to let you take it over and its ideas unless you can first convince them that your ideas are not your own but rather that they are the ideas of a mightier third independent body that has greater powers over reality. The struggle is of course to define the most powerful version of reality and to substantiate it; that the limitations of such an endeavor are based on the individual observers imagination is of course an unknown; humanity’s horizon is limited by humanity’s vision. There is nothing in humanity’s vision of the universe that does not try to humanize the universe. Universal laws are a human invention. A humane and just god is a humanization of infinity. These are objectifications which we use to convince the world and ourselves that there is more to us than meets the eye. After all if we were merely capitalist and war mongers that would not complete a picture of the complex beings that we are. Unfortunately objectification is not as much true as it is successful, objectification if you’d not notice is a mere philosophy! We and the world have made it believable! But it is not more than an attempt at imbedding the self into everything else that is not perceived as part of the self. When we sterilize and segregate the universe we then must bring ourselves to it, we then touch the universe with e=mc2.
