In life I find it is far easier to live with blinders on so-to-speak, rather than see the world around you for what it is, what it can be, and even for what it should be.
We as humans tend to live our lives in a bubble, and in that bubble we get comfortable, satisfied, lazy and over time heavily resistant to change. Although we know that nothing in this life is constant except that everything changes, we still insist on trying our hardest to keep our security blanket wrapped tightly around us in a vain effort to stop the ebbing tide of change.
Why do we do this? We are a somewhat intelligent race, maybe not in a general sense, but of course in specific cases we feel superior to the beasts of the field, fishes in the seas, and birds of the sky. Can we not see the foolishness in our fruitless efforts to remain changeless?
This leads me to ponder that of subjective viewpoints and the merit (if any) they provide versus the elusive (to most) objectivity that allows us to see outside of ourselves and our limited, egotistical and often times selfish nature.
Does subjectivity yield anything other than gaining a semblance of comfort and security by latching on to traditions, emotions, notions, and sometimes time honored views? In almost all cases that I can think of, subjectivity hurts more than helps. It burdens us with preconceived notions rather than empirical, extrinsic evidence to support our views.
There are rare cases when that "gut" feeling we have all experienced, tends to overshadow (most of the time rightly so) that which we are pining on about and helps to hurtle us in the right direction. In these cases subjectivity I would argue is the exception to the rule, and is of more value that objectivity.
Moving forward, if we look at objectivity, we can actually step outside the boundaries of our limited understanding and experience, thus, not being ruled by emotion, or previous experience empowers us to make a more non-human choice. After all, we are by nature, creatures of habit, and passion(s). I would argue that to truly see objectively and choose according to that new found sight, empowers us to gain characteristics of a being greater than ourselves. This is personal growth at its finest. We are able to remove the shackles of choice by natural selection (deterministic choice), and move to a free-will based choice by means of adaptation.
Now, we are often challenged in our views, opinions and feelings. But this does not mean, this is a bad thing. This merely means that we are being given an opportunity to determine if our previous course of action was objectively sought out, or whether we let emotions rule the day.
Ideally the time spent determining, shortcuts as we become more efficient in our objective deliberation; most of the time we spend worrying about things usually deals with the heart and not the head.
All in all, when challenged, we need embrace the exploratory means in which we can absolve ourselves of subjectivity. Excepting of course the times when the "gut" feeling is played as a trump card.
Children, because of their ignorance, almost always choose the subjective path, due to limited knowledge, understanding, experience, time, patience, faculties, deductive reasoning skills and a myriad of other things. As we grow older these pretentious tendencies need to be left behind and objective rationale should be our weapon of choice.
Ours is not ultimately the struggle of bad or good choices, but that of good, better and best choices. Even a simple mule knows not to act like a fool and make a moronic choice, but the separation of man and animal (at least from my viewpoint) is mans ability to choose better than yesterday and tomorrow better than before. Not from subjective, emotionally response mechanics, but from a very real, objective, outside looking, selfless motivation in which will enoble us and eventually will align ourselves with a greater divine than we now possess.
