Gustafson Michael

And since there is no God, both subjectivism and intrinsics ultimately come from one’s feelings. The difference is in which aspects of reality those feelings are meant to ignore. The intrisicist feels resentment towards anything individual, emotional, ephemeral, optional, personal, i.e., anything arising from an individual’s consciousness–and so represses that in the name of adherence to his view of reality. The subjectivist feels resentment towards anything universal, rigid, unyielding, restricting, i.e., anything about reality that constrains him. The subjectivist and intrinsics meet in their wish for an un-thinking and un-choosing existence. The differ in that aspect of reality which gives them the most trouble, which they’re trying to avoid–the subjectivists resent reality, the intrisicists resent consciousness.