Excluding other's "objectivity"

@fmf said
"Subjectivity, relativity and irrationalism are advocated not in order to let in all opinions, but precisely so as to exclude the opinions of people who believe in old authorities and objective truths." ~ Roger Scruton

This one is a challenge to my own line of thinking about subjectivity v objectivity.

To what extent does debate here rely on seeking to "exclude opinions" ra ...[text shortened]... e the opinions of people who believe in old authorities and objective truths" do you see being made?

“Here’s bright new shinny thing” is a complex (if that’s the right word) which I see frequently in my line of work.

I see it in business leaders who despite being intelligent educated individuals are simply not grounded enough in the fundamentals of the various specialisms (sales and selling for example) in order to apply sufficient appropriate traction to make commercial progress.

I see it also in some topical articles from such esteemed voices as the Harvard Business Review, where someone is trying to make some money selling “a bright new shinny thing” to smart people who lack something and a bright shinny thing looks good.

This week I will be running a workshop with a group of people some of whom have some bright new shinny things and some of whom hold some old things. They need to find a collective way forward.

In work and in spirituality I am a fundamentalist (not to be easily confused with extremist). I try to focus on the fundamentals as a principle of growth, I.e. get the foundation right rather than the choice of shinny roof tiles in order to build the house.

What I often see in this forum is a deeply rooted adherence to a ruin.