Everyone, everywhere has a "worldview." The way they see the world and interpret meaning. the ways they derive order--that's worldview. It has many dimensions - location, location, location (sorry--I'm still on a real estate high!). But also: social grouping, time period, gender, ethnicity, religion, and many others.
When I write or talk about a subject--say, pickles--that subject is imbued with my worldview--I can not separate myself from it and write totally objectively. It's impossible. Pickles come in a jar from the supermarket--my worldview is revealed--I am a non-farmer, non-canner, who understands pickles only as they are seen by me in my era. (The pickles I get at the Old Country Store in Moultonboro are a different story altogether!)
Someday however, a pickle might be delivered via food replicators, like in Star Trek (tea--Earl Grey--hot!) and my understanding of them floating in jars may become quaint and outdated.
NEXT: Slavery in the Bible--a worldview
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