The onset of objectivity

How did this happen?

The onset of objectivity . . .

It is more damaging

then the cultivation of land.

It is more far reaching

then the invention of books

and it is more insidious

then the pollution of the environment.

How did this happen?

This onset of objectivity . . .

Imagine the nature of perception

and how experience worked

in the beginning,

before objectivity.

In the course of self-consciousness

as human endeavor,

what was a relative context?

What was the role

of comparative truth?

How did human experience

father this consensual myopia?

How did experience

invest in human entitlement?

Objectivity is also more than

the naming of things

into a mental equivalency.

It is a referential perception

of eventually everything.

What was

our direct primal experience?

We do have a relative context

for space and self.

Our mind-fill of perceptions

translates into experiences.

We have professed by action

being in response

as opposed to being receptive

to what is more subtly occurring.

Yet by the method

of objectivity alone,

we tend to be

more symbolically evidential

and self-promotional to others.

Objectivity is a procedure

of righteous justification.

It is a specialized set of rules

that apply in a limited set

of circumstances.

Objectivity infers a set of assumptions

both at the “causal level”

as well as at the socially ordained

“how it should be known” level.

Invoking objectivity

suggests dismissal

of any other means for observation

or serious perusal.

Objectivity seems to control

the pecking order of value

for all other types of initial experiences;

from an active imagination

to prejudice,

from personal bias to collective view,

from psychic hogwash to silly hunch,

from emotional highs to sour grapes,

from credentialed to lack of expertise,

from neophyte to elderly,

from clueless to rank,

from impressionable to hard ass,

from wise man to punk.

All are displaced

by the position of ‘objectively speaking’.

The league of the righteous

is obliged by objectivity.

States of sanity

are proposed by objectivity.

The compression of thought

into decision,

the certitude of conclusion,

and the conciseness of language,

are sentinels of objectivity.

The onset of objectivity

as a technique

has fashioned our world

into consensually limited options

in a mentally linear pace.

No mind actually works this way.

No brain

functionally serves its master

this way.

Objectivity is a persuasion

as much as gravity is obvious.

It is a false burden of frame

and as pretentious as name-dropping

and yet we

as a living collective organism,

provide for its ongoing existence

by living it alive. . .

what objectivity?