This is http://www.essayz.com/a8805271.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %COLLUSION COMMUNAL OBJECTIFICATION OF SUBJECTIVITY 880527 It serves the purpose of collusive games of mutual self deception to communally objectify private subjective experiences. It is dangerous to collusions to permit individuals to have respected private experiences; for, within such private experiences there may come revelations of the tabooed truths which are central to the collusions. It is not practical to police all private experiences, except through the eternal vigilance of each and every member of the collusive community. Each member is seduced into joining the collusion to police their own experiences and interpretations of private experiences, to insure that no revelation occurs which might undermine the collusion against truth. An effective ploy is to objectify all of reality: including the objectification of private personal experiences. If all members of a community believe that the only realities are objective realities, they will find it difficult to take seriously their own private experiences, for then private experiences can not be ultimately real or significant. Objective perceptions can be controlled more effectively by a collusion than can private perceptions. Objectivity depends essentially upon communal affirmations. Subjective perceptions do not depend essentially upon communal affirmations. If subjective perceptions are respected, citizens might take seriously their taboo perceptions of their private experiences, and so see exposed the violence which the collusion does to truth. The ploy against truth is aided by the myth of objectivity, by which participants in the collusion come to believe that through perfect objectivity they can transcend subjective biases which stand in the way of the discovery of reliable truth. When objectivity is the ultimate test of truth, the collusion can control the perceptions of dangerous creative artists, who might otherwise have transcendent visions, pointing the way out of the collusive prisons of addictive thought patterns and attitudes. The collusion teaches that objective truth is the exclusive way to truth, and so blocks the way to subjective perceptions of the violence that collusions do to the truths which transcend objectivity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================