Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's-indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. To be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic.
"Subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet...and to our species nearly wiping itself out. (David Brin)

Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's-indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. To be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic. "Subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet...and to our species nearly wiping itself out.

David Brin

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