Objectivity: Humanity's greatest evil
Often I feel that is it too easy to be loyal. One can blindly follow anyone. One can give authority to anyone. However, it is evenly difficult to judge and correct the one's you want to be loyal to. At the same time, we often tend to denigrate the one's we don't like. Not because we want to give a productive judgement, but because we want to prove that our ideology is supreme. We don't tend to understand complex and detailed scenarios, instead, we try to paint the world with a black and white picture of what's good and what's bad. We often feel that the world works in set parameters. Those parameters are all that we know of ourselves and of others. I don't know why, even after being educated, learned and well-read we always tend to think objectively. I during my four years of engineering was made to complete more than 35 courses and many more assignments, projects and case studies. But even then the overall idea of examination remained the same: to identify the correct solution, to get the correct answer, to make the most accurate sketch. The overall idea that we have multiple-choice questions is wrong. Why at all we should have only four choices to a question which can have multiple facets, multiple connotations? Maybe this society wants us to behave a certain way, maybe it wants us to narrow down our thinking ability. However, this education system, while narrowing down our reasoning acumen, often forgets that humans are still the part of this nature. Their belief that they are supreme, that they know the wisest truth, that they can control whatsoever comes their way, can be challenged by no one but nature. By constraining yourself you do nothing but limit your ways to overcome what you can actually achieve.
You constraint your vision for a healthy and democratic world. You believe that your cultural beliefs are supreme. Therefore you end up being ruled by an authoritarian dictator, who rose through the ladders of hatred. Now that his ideology is based on hatred, he cannot change his beliefs, he is objective too and want you to be so, objective.
You constraint your thinking, when a company gives priority to a female candidate, instead you start judging the company executives that "Hey! Such people are making this world overly feminist!". But while doing so, you often forget that if females can mend their ways, if they can be flexible enough to survive and thrive the overly patriarchal past that we have been through, why can't males be flexible enough? Is masculine soul so weak that is cannot survive the female-dominated world? We never think that way.
It's very difficult to make some people understand that it's not their culture that is in threat, but the real threat is their limited awareness of how cultures evolve and how a modern social set up forms. For them, the world has a very limited opportunities. These opportunities will however multiply, they will evolve, mix up, break up and at last diversify.
Objectivity, at last, can never run this world. You need to be subjective, you need to listen, you need to say. Until we don't understand that this conceptualization of right and wrong; good or bad; win or lose; Yes or No., is just so wrong in decision making, we may not be able to control the most acute crisis and emergencies of our times. It's too easy to be loyal, loyal to one choice, loyal to one truth, loyal to one belief and yes....loyal to objectivity.
