I believe as much as anyone that there's no real way for finite beings to make any true or universal sense out of the infinite. No pure and simple objectivity.
But I also think as finite beings, it's necessary to recognize our innate structures and commonalities. Human "truths" as opposed to the Big Truth in the sky that we can never know. There's a reason that people who see God turn blind.
The post structural has been the best thing ever for peeking behind the curtain and seeing the small little people where the Masters used to stand. It's a way of breaking out of fraudulent cages we didn't build.
The thing is, what now? With all that freedom, what now?
Peel the blanket off your head and decide that you should spend your time playing peekaboo?
There's not a perfect solution to this dichotomy, and I don't forsee one. EVER.
Anyway, the point is that reality will always shift according to environmental factors and the organisms perceiving it (really the distinction between organisms and their environment is another practical fallacy resulting from the limitations of symbolic language/perception).
The challenge as a person aware of these factors is to maintain that sense of subjectivity as a perpetual subtext (a subtext that outweighs the main), while still allowing themselves to use the floating truths that have been hammered into a loose shape by history. Jumping back between the two modes as quickly and efficiently as possible always hoping to increase the bit rate as time goes on.
It's like when people ask Chomsky about his plan to "fix everything". It's too complex. All you can do is learn by doing. Be informed and always ready to resituate yourself according to the changing circumstance. Work according to the shape of the world until the shape changes and then continue. Repeat forever.
Establishing commonalities is the hardest thing to do ever, and yet it's not rocket science(well, it is, ..but that's getting too literal).
I wish I had gotten a bit more conceptual here and also dropped some names for added authenticity but I get to embarrassed with myself whenever I linger too long on universal hermeneutics and the like. But I can linger on a message board all I like. Right Missy?
