What can be considered objective or subjective about how we understand the codices of our social and cultural agreements? I would argue that objectivity is no more than the practice of consenting to learned or evolutionary subjective reasoning. For me, it stands as a fact that no one perspective occupies completely the same mental space of another, "separate" perspective. Otherwise, if there is no difference between the two then they are the same. In this case, there is no difference in point-of-view, belief, or experience. There is most definitely an overlap in the weaving together of our consciousness', but there is no objective understanding of this web that we all hold individually at once that can lend itself to what we determine to be any "objective truths."

The laws that we allow to govern our society are not objectively beneficial for anyone. They are passive in their application, at best, as approaches to addressing common issues that we have conflict or misunderstanding over, and then tend to become the genesis of some of those issues. Even if this is the case, the preceding argument is not where I want to begin. What I'm suggesting is that our laws are prescribing a specific narrative that is inherently and at times explicitly read from our founding document. Everything seems to be based and biased upon the existence of a final arbiter, namely GOD. It doesn't matter in what fashion you believe in GOD, GOD ends up being the objective rule maker and judge of what is wrong or right.

What's wrong with that? Here I re-assert, not that there isn't a higher consciousness or plane of knowing that permeates the universe, but that there is no way to codify its existence, its perspective, its leanings into our human-centric laws. GOD is a path of understanding. It cannot be the end we are standing upon.

What, if anything, can be a true and prosperous foundation if we cannot find it objectively and externally?

This is exactly the problematic approach I would like to expose. That all of our expressions of law and order are guided by and sift through our collective subjective reasonings.

…I originally published this piece on Substack…