Comprehensive Theory of Self-Determination
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What objectification is
Objectification is the condition in which the person is treated not as a thinking, deciding, responsible subject, but as a manageable unit: electoral mass, taxpayer, service recipient, order-taker, consumer, data point, or statistic.
The objectifying state
An objectifying state governs the person from above, granting status, permission, or service, but not always recognizing subjecthood. The citizen faces closed procedures, unclear decisions, arbitrariness, irresponsible bureaucracy, and formal participation.
Main forms of objectification
Objectification can be authoritarian, oligarchic, populist, bureaucratic, market-based, technocratic, algorithmic, or cultural. In each case, the person learns to obey, depend, consume, be calculated, or stop deciding.
The Armenian experience
Armenia’s crises can also be read as a history of disrupted subjecthood: distrust in institutions, political manipulation, economic dependence, educational adaptation, information vulnerability, and uncertainty about the meaning of the future.
The self-determination-based contrast
A self-determination-based republic recognizes the subject in all human roles: student, soldier, worker, citizen, user, parent, professional, and public participant. Its goal is not to make the person a convenient part of the system, but to help the person understand, decide, act, participate, and carry responsibility.
Protection of subjecthood
Subjecthood is protected when the state explains decisions, law is accessible, education develops thinking, media does not become manipulation, the economy does not close people into dependence, and technology does not replace human decision.
Political consequence
This contrast makes the idea political as well as theoretical. It requires testing which systems expand human agency and which produce manageability, dependence, or silence. The republic must measure what quality of citizen, community, and public will its efficiency creates.