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Along the edge of ancient maps it used to say Here there be monsters What does it say at the edge of your map and why does it say that

HERE THERE BE ASPIRATION TOWARD OBJECTIVITY

As I pass gradually from youth to adulthood, I have begun to become aware of the importance and the challenge of achieving an objective perspective. The greatest difficulty seems to be our relative lack of awareness that we tend toward extreme subjectivity in our perceptions, beliefs, opinions, and practically everything that we define as good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust, and worthwhile or worthless in life. It seems that many people live out their entire lives without ever realizing that even their most basic and fundamental perceptions and opinions have been molded by their society, their circumstances, and their formative experiences.
Many of us participate in formal studies about different contemporary cultures or ancient civilizations, but largely without ever really appreciating the principles and lessons that those studies provide. American Sociology majors, for example, may engage in spirited discourse about the variety of human cultural practices or on the minutiae of daily customs in specific cultures of academic or personal interest during the day only to spend the evening scouring Ebay for designer pocketbooks or shoes. It seems that applying the (seeming) lesson of studying the variety of human cultures does