Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
AVOIDING THE FAUX-"OBJECTIVITY" HOAX
AVOID THE "OBJECTIVITY" HOAX
A popular canard, deceit, untruth has long been propagated about "objective" journalism, history, science, religion, democracy. All that is written, studied, or presented by man that is not confirmed in nature is per se subjective.
Objectivity and subjectivity are natural. It rains on the just and the unjust, and sun shines on the good and the evil.
Man is both objective and subjective by nature. Yet man is driven by an inner impulse to always seem to be objective, God-like.
"A priest must always appear to be pious, but must never be," said Nicoli Machiavelli, medieval Italian philosopher, in THE PRINCE.
Read multiple sources. Triangulate information and stay abreast of later developments. Take all in with a grain or two of salt. Compare your observations, conclusions with others' conceptions, perceptions and then correlate all, eliminating, as necessary.