The reality is vast and messy. To make sense of it, people start from the bits immediate to them and gradually extend outwards to grapple more and more in their conceptualization of (the reality of) the world. As the amount of information increases, categories are made and disciplines are created to aid organization. Such conceptualization (or the understanding) of (parts of) the reality in a categorical manner, however, unavoidably rips (or fragments) the whole of the reality in conceptualization. Soon enough further the practice of specialization, only (fragments of) particular elements that deemed to be of the closest relevance to the selected constructed particular disciplines (or specizaliations) are usually considered. That is to say that disciplinarity makes the complex reality more easily understandable (or graspable), but at the same time presents only a partial and likely reductionist view of the reality should one only focus on particular disciplines i.e. giving less regard to other disciplines.
But what is reality? I believe that there is no objective reality but everyone has a subjective reality of their own. In other words, each individual's conceptualization constitutes the external (collective) yet still subjective reality.
And opinions can be shaped by the powerful. The subjective manipulated by the external. In the extreme case of 1984 for example, the reality is indeed that of the big brother delivered through the telescreen.
July 9 2015 - struggling so much with my dissertation you can't believe
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