Subject Reality… Are You A Brain In A Vat? The latest trend being pushed by philosophers and scientists alike is that nothing is objectively real, and everything is relative or subjective. Let’s step through this and put this sophistry to bed. If you believe everything is subjective and there is no such thing as objective truth than you can justify any behavior as it is only subjective to “societal norms”. In this way, you can justify all the evils as nothing more than society not normalizing them and determine what is right and wrong and can postulate that a different society with different norms would find these things perfectly okay and it's only your interpretation that makes these things wrong. You will hear this kind of stuff coming from many different sources. It is an attempt to enshrine relativism. Relativism is when the mind determines what reality is not something external. With this kind of belief in place, bad things are only bad because we interpret them this way (or that the physical is the result of the mental, so its only wrong because we think it is wrong). It is an attempt to make the supreme rule the interpretation not what is. This is sophistry at its finest. If you can convince people the only thing that is real is what they believe is real you can fully control them by manipulating what they believe is real. What they are doing is blurring the line between objective reality (what is) and subjective reality (how we interpret what is) and in fact, they are attempting to completely remove the concept of objective reality. If we want to be intelligent thinking people with free will (the ability to think for ourselves and act upon those thoughts) we have to try our best to understand objective truths in order to accumulate knowledge about objective reality. The sophists that are trying to stop you from even looking for objective truths to understand objective reality are the same ones manipulating our perceptions of objective real...