Due to the fact that we have been running
pretty much on automatic pilot,
we have been dealt many cards which were
subtly turning us against ourselves.
One of them is the whole notion of
objectivity in science.
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While sold to us as being the opposite of
subjectivity, what it means is that this process of science makes us
look at others, animals, plants, earth, our own daughters etc as
objects.
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It's like when you hear someone
say regarding young girls totally vulgar exposed all but naked on a
stage for others to 'observe' that they reduced them to a piece if meat.
So implicit in reducing something to an object means reducing it to
something which we have no relationship with, no feelings, no
bond... nothing. This is why in science we find such terrible animal abuse.
But it doesn't stop with animals.
We test nuclear bombs in oceans full of
life and animals. The objective view inherently sees abject objects.
This is how science has also come to see human beings. The objective
view sees abject objects from which it is totally separate. And this
lack of bond to it: the tree, the water, the earth... makes it very easy
to destroy it..., experiment upon it..., disrespect it..., humiliate it... All
empathy and connection is lost, and even inanimate objects, which have
lost all organic life are alive. They are very close to spirit... like
precious stones. But we teach our children: to
objectify or thus disconnect. The disconnection leads to why more and more people find it
totally okay to keep harassing the earth with our invasive intrusions into
her to rob her from her precious materials so we can maintain societies
of addiction... to futilities.
Should we be teaching objectivity toward the trees, the water, the food, the earth, the body etc? Or should we teach our children that they are the water, they are the trees, the food, the earth etc.
Is it really so strange that we have: a world of animal abuse and torture, where the earth is mined and fracked, where we treat our daughters like abject objects and prostitutes on stages, use drones to kill mothers and children.... where entering schools and shooting down young children is an epidemic; if at the core of our teachings is to be objective and thus objectify others...?
Should we be teaching objectivity toward the trees, the water, the food, the earth, the body etc? Or should we teach our children that they are the water, they are the trees, the food, the earth etc.
Is it really so strange that we have: a world of animal abuse and torture, where the earth is mined and fracked, where we treat our daughters like abject objects and prostitutes on stages, use drones to kill mothers and children.... where entering schools and shooting down young children is an epidemic; if at the core of our teachings is to be objective and thus objectify others...?
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