God's Eye View

The God's Eye View is the assumption of a perspective from which one can evaluate things "objectively" and come to the "right" decision. It applies to both moral and mathematical decisions. See conceptual metaphor for an alternative way to look at these problems.

The GEV is normally considered a point of view issue in history, or subject-object problem in linguistics or unequal power relation problem in sociology.

In religious circules it may be considered to be blasphemy to make a claim that something is "true" without following some strict process. For example in 922 AD the Persian mystic Al-Hallaj was executed after many trials and counter trials. His crime? He wandered the streets in a state of mystical "fana" while uttering "I am the truth".

By constrast, by the late 1990s, obvious liars could pretty much take control of most of the military power on Earth, and seriously expect to be re-elected. This suggests that democracy may actually be the worst usurper of God-view.

By contrast, the problem of GodKing on large public wikis is not so bad, humourous, even.