A strong, subtle influence making us less sensitive to our inner life is western society’s long love affair with the objective. We have come to think that subjective is an adjective with flavor rather closely akin to overly sentimental, undependable, or inconsiderate. As a result, we try to rid ourselves of the taint of being who we are inwardly experiencing persons~and set about treating ourselves as products of some Detroit assembly line, largely interchangeable and having little of value in whatever uniqueness slipped through the inspection. The virtue of objectivity is to hold in abeyance some parts of our experiencing at times in order to discern more of the environment’s nature. But an authentic value has been subverted by those who do not trust the wholeness of human beings, and objectivity has been allowed to claim all of existence as its domain. The behaviorists, at their most extreme, have not been content with the special lens that the objective stance has provided; instead, they have insisted that all other views were but phantoms. Now the reaction is setting in, as might well have been anticipated, and antiintellectualism is elevating subjectivity and dethroning reason.