Being objective, then, does not mean knowing “objective truth” or “absolute truth”, but making your best guess.
Your best guess is your best guess, not necessarily the best guess that exists in the universe, and certainly not the best possible guess that can be made.
People are different, they possess different information and they have different capacities.
Your best guess may be the same as someone else’s best guess, which means that the two of you have certain similarities. It can also be better than someone else’s guess, as well as worse.
The quality of guess has several dimensions.
The first, and the most important dimension, is the quality of guess in relation to one’s limits.
We are not free to see the world any way we like. We are limited creatures, and so we have a finite set of possible ways in which we can perceive reality.
You can make the best possible guess you can make, the best possible way you can perceive reality. This is mental health.
Or you can make a substandard guess, a guess which is below your capacities. This is mental illness.
The second dimension is temporal dimension. As we become stronger, our standards change, and so what we previously thought to be our best guess now becomes a substandard guess, revealing itself as a mistake.
The third, and final, dimension is the quality of guess in relation to what other people think.
Normally, we feel ashamed when we make, or realize that we have made, a substandard guess. But if we end up confusing what is substandard with what is up to standard, we can be made to feel ashamed for no reason whatsoever. This is what happens when people conflate their own limits with other people’s expectations.
A man can adopt unrealistic standard. Unrealistic standard is a standard which does not reflect one’s limits. One is expected to perform better than one can, to over-perform, or to perform worse than one can, to under-perform.
To be yourself, who you are, is to act to the best of your ability.
This is what it means to develop genetic identity.
This is what it means to be noble, to be a gentleman.
The other option, to not be who you are, is to under-perform or over-perform.
This is what it means to develop memetic identity.
This is what it means to be ignoble, to be a barbarian.
To under-perform is to act below your limits.
This is exaggerated humility/shame, or hyper-femininity.
Concealed, tamed barbarism.
To over-perform is to act above your limits.
This is exaggerated arrogance, or hyper-masculinity.
Open, untamed barbarism.