Hi Mark, i love your example, and it fits. It is also fitting to take that approach when thinking about why certain things made sense in other sociohistorical contexts, and why it does not in ours.
To talk about lack of “objective” social reality is to defer to some kind of “subjective” reality constructed socially or even individually (tho as individuals our perceptions are socially-influenced at least). What i meant to highlight in non-philosophical language is to say that i resent other people telling me what my own objective reality is and dismissing my own subjective reality that differs from theirs. By admitting my own subjectivity, i keep space for others to interpret otherwise for THEMSELVES but not on my behalf. It has postcolonial undertones, which i discovered while writing the blogpost and my response to you… I wonder…