No one can see the world from exactly where you stand. Where you stand establishes your perspective. Where you stand geographically, demographically, psychographically, temporally, et cetera, these are the foundation of your experience as the subject of your own story. You can go anywhere you please and look around. You will see the world revolving around you; and it truly does. The world revolves around you just as surely as the sun rises and sets. That’s what subjectivity is, it is the fact that you are a witness to existence. You are having an experience in reality. There is a simple and important truth to the fact that you really are experiencing everything that you see, feel, think, and dream.
Subjectivity is the crucial catalyst that allows empirical facts to take on meaning. Subjectivity brings matter to life. Subjectivity makes water cool, makes peaches sweet, makes thorns sting. I don’t mean that metaphorically. Water cannot be cool without a subject to experience the coolness. It can be 54°F. But whether or not that empirical temperature is cool or warm is relational, not empirical. Subjectivity makes you alive. And not only you; subjectivity makes the world around you alive. If a tree falls in the forest it will cause vibrations in the air around it, but it cannot make a loud, disturbing crash unless someone is there to hear those vibrations.
As we look at subjectivity, in this chapter, we’ll explore:
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