SIGMUND Freud became famous and will remain famous forever because he was able to show, in his studies of the mind, where there are two realities in life. Before Freud gave the world his genius, there were always two realities. Freud simply displayed the functioning of these two realities with brilliant accuracy.
The first reality is subjective. The second is objective. The difference is as simple as kissing the palm of your hand. Subjective reality exists in the mind of the person. It has no connection with science and the real world. Objective reality is what we, other people, and the world can see and recognise and in so doing, shape their lives to conform to reality. Objective reality exists independent of humans.

We will elaborate on subjective reality. It is the cluster of things an individual implants on his/her mind and that is the lens through which life is viewed. The examples are in the billions, but just

one item should suffice. A young lady accepts that her qualities in every department outshine others, so she will win the pageant. When she loses, she still doesn’t come to embrace objective reality. She cannot. It is what shapes her mind.

So, with this theoretical background, we look at a letter in the Guyana Chronicle of August 28 written by financial analyst, Joel Bhagwandin. The letter is about the double standards of Mr. Glen Lall, owner of the Kaieteur News. Bhagwandin demands transparency and accountability from Lall just as Lall demands those two values from the government.
Then Bhagwandin reveals that Lall is planning to form a political party. With that news, a discussion of subjective reality comes in. The mere idea of Lall forming a political party has to leave you in stitches. But Lall would reject your laughs because Lall seriously believe that the reality out there views him as a citizen that people want to see rule Guyana.
My prediction is that Lall will only get one vote – his own. But that will not deter Lall from forging ahead. And why? Because the subjective reality in Lall’s mind is too powerful, so it blocks out any aperture for objective reality to seep in. The best analogy I can think of is when you pull the curtains so you block out the sun from entering.

When Lall forms his party he will have to contend with me. Briefly, I have not been paid funds due to me from writing for Kaieteur News for 30 years. I paid PAYE and NIS and had to submit my pay-slip to the commercial bank as part of the money-laundering law whenever I had to renew my account after it would have lapsed. The Minister of Labour has assured me that his ministry will ask Lall for a response and based on that will decide on a course of action.

Despite all the pertinent questions, Bhagwandin has asked Lall in relation to lack of transparency and accountability in the world of Lall, I don’t think that will deter him from forming his party because subjective reality is the foundation on which the mind of such people like Lall rests.
Vice-President Jagdeo made two remarks last week that perhaps capture the functioning of the subjective mind. He said Lall makes virtue out of sin and that you can explain to Lall something ten times, still Lall would not understand. And why is this so? Because of subjective reality.
Like Bhagwandin, I heard from reliable sources that Lall is forming a political party. It will not produce results if, when the party is up and running, people, like Bhagwandin, will hurl accusations of double standards at Lall.

Why will people’s criticisms against Lall not produce results? Because Lall lives with a psychology that tells him that people love him and want him to run for elections so he can become the president. It is difficult to dissolve subjective reality in the mind of a person.
When the political party is launched, it is not Lall who will face the embarrassment. In his state of mind, he will be oblivious to the accusations of hypocrisy, double standards, autocratic mentality, etc….

It is the people in the leadership of Lall’s party that will be relentlessly pressed to answer how they can campaign for a man to be President of Guyana when that very man, as Bhagwandin contends, does not practise the things he accuses the ruling party of not doing.
When that party is formed, all Guyanese with impatient curiosity will want to see the names in the leadership. Can they survive the criticism against Lall? Trust me, I will be in the forefront making those criticisms.