Professor adorably explains the cause of issues in the world

[LordFall]

 

Professor Timothy Fortin is filmed here talking about relativism and although his view on consciousness and objective truth are a bit off, he correctly accesses the huge implications of relativism in the world today. The reason why we have so many wars, conflicts, and plain old interpersonal issues today IS actually that we all fundamentally believe that our own version of reality is the truth and we engage in a constant battle against others to maintain that vision. 

"What objective truth says is that there's one you. There's one reality and truth for me and truth for you are bound to that same reality. If that's not the case then we have our own truth and therefore and we each have our own reality the consequence of that is that ultimately communication itself becomes impossible."

This is really funny to listen to because yeah, that's exactly what's going on right now! People today do have terrible communication because they end up having different definitions of things like what the right thing to do is and thus we end up with a disorganized and divided world.

[Carl-Richard]

4 hours ago, LordFall said:

People today do have terrible communication because they end up having different definitions of things like what the right thing to do is and thus we end up with a disorganized and divided world.

The systemic communication theorist Gregory Bateson calls this "context", which is your interpretative framework, and everybody has a different one based on previous experiences. His work is all about showing how communication is not a straightforward thing.