Objectivity part 3
As I started to think about writing this post, I thought about the first two antidotes listed around objectivity:
- realize that everybody has a world view and world view affects the way we understand the world
- realize this is true for you too; you are not “objective,” you are steeped in your own world view and if it is the dominant world view, realize how that world view includes the belief that it has the capacity to be objective
Looking at these two I started to think about a book I recently read called Sand Talk: How indigenous thinking can save the world. There was something so familiar as I read the book. It made me pause several times and think about how much being taught a strictly linear, “logical”, and “rational” that pushed against embracing my emotions, conform to one way of thinking, and operate with an either/or way of thinking. The notion that my own world view and that of my family and ancestors was valid felt like a non-starter.
As I look more at Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous Wholistic Theory, the more I wonder how embracing these approaches and understanding could balance and counter the ways we currently operate and produce oppressive culture and inequitable outcomes for certain demographics. Instead of denying that we have a world view and it shapes our interaction of the world, we could spend more time embracing different knowledge and points of view. We could spend less time being defensive and more time growing different ways of solving the problems we are facing.
