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Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions Along the Science-Spirit Divide

The Emerald

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The Importance of Objective Reality

Post-Enlightenment Western science has basically now come to claim that it has the one and only methodology to get to objective reality. Anyone who bases their worldview in anything but that methodology, which has been in play for precisely 0.1% of human history, is wrong. In this way, as environmental visionary Charles Eisenstein says, Western science acts a whole lot like Orthodox religion.

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