Subjectivism is a very popular view of our existence. It is the assumption that one’s self and emotional experience are the only knowable truths, and is often the presumption that the subject is the only real thing. Because of these presumptions, it lends itself to the psychological drive of power lust. Power lust is the obsession or drive for power for its own sake. Subjectivism’s assumption about reality, since it exists solely within one’s head, means that it is meant to bend to the subjectivist’s will. Objectivism presumes that there is an external world that the subject cannot mentally directly affect.
There is a presumption of extreme internalization in subjectivism. A person’s accurate conceptions can only regard themselves. This creates a primacy of consciousness or of a person’s internality. Because the internal is the only real thing, there’s no mitigating externality that a person is supposed to cross-reference. The internal qualities and opinions of a person become monumental, and, since the external world isn’t real, the external world is seen as a frustration of the true and factual. This leads the person to desire dominance of the external world, particularly of other people, since the external world, in fact, doesn’t bend to the subjectivist’s will. To the subjectivist, the truth (their internal preferences and impulses) must triumph over the false (the external world). Power lust becomes the norm because all the subjectivist is doing in their attempts in the external world is to bring things into “the truth” by any means necessary.
Other people are seen as enemies insofar as they don’t placate the subjectivist’s “truth.” The more another person pays heed to the external world, the greater the threat they pose. A subjectivist looks for “allies” in the unknown external world. They want people who will join with or placate their internal mechanisms. Other subjectivists are preferred because they already contain the internal mechanisms that will help satisfy the subjectivist in the external world. They will concede the broad philosophical points that allow the subjectivist to generally function, particularly in psychological ease, in the exterior world. However, if a fellow subjectivist ultimately doesn’t abide by the personal internal mechanism of a subjectivist, the subjectivist has no problem with getting rid of them, as it is the one knowable and true mechanism of the subjectivist that holds the mechanism that matters. Other people can be used freely, because they are simply part of the mirage of the external world and are apart from the subjectivist’s “truth.”
In the end, what the subjectivist wants from the external world and all of the other people in it is obedience; obedience to his subjective “truth.” To a subjectivist, all is subordinated to the internal truth. Without a shared external world and an external world one is meant to adhere to, all that is left to a subjectivist is power lust, as the power that he holds within his own head.