We are told that very often people fall in love with people who broadly ‘look like them’. It is an interesting and rather unsettling fact. The same social strata makes sense as you only ever marry people you have met (even in that bizarre and stupid TV show).
It is also said we are tending in the Internet age to revolve around friend groups of people who reinforce our beliefs and think as we do. Given that what you believe and accept as true depends entirely on where in history you choose to start to build your world view, this is not only unsettling but terrifying. It is the reason for insurrection, for terrorism and wars. Unless we assume a large number of people have brain that do not work on facts or what Kant called -the light of reason’.
I am of the opinion there is no objectivity, even in me, although I strive for it. What gets in the way? The effects of creed and emotion and hatreds.
#kant