Objectivity vs. subjectivity: can objectivity create order or a different future? Examples of subjectivity..

In one of my previous posts, I promised to give examples of subjectivity. Let's start step by step.

The observer enters the field of subjectivity when it starts evaluating what it has just observed based on its own arbitrary criteria. Both observing and evaluating can be objective if the observer desires so. However, if the observer is not interested in getting to the truth, but rather attempts to assign its own meaning as well as relative value to the subject of observation and is using own arbitrary criteria, then we may be quite sure his observation and evaluation are more subjective then objective.

The observer can still see the actual object, but the meaning of its presence for the observers is purely subjective. It can be good, or bad, dangerous or safe, nice or repellent. This subjective perception of the object has little meaning for the object itself and its existence. It has only particular, arbitrary meaning to the observer. On top of this many observers, if they are subjective, may have many different perceptions of the same observed object, which may represent a different meaning for each observer. Then such differences can fuel conflicts and lead to wars. All because of subjective perceptions.

Stay tuned for more...

Olie