The physicalist view is a philosophical fixity of thought which is so intense that it cannot think of itself as thought; it can only think of the object of its thought, and so feels itself to be utterly "objective", and everything else to be soft minded; it is angry in this last accusation, for the very existence of soft-mindedness is enough to upset it ontologically...Physicalism is a hard unyielding intellectual stare, as the hard unyielding social stare is the rude dramatic act of of making out that the one stared at is an execresence, an object stupidly "there" over and against the world, and which aims to makes its victim and perhaps the starer him or herself forget the subjectivity of the starer. (Max Deutscher, Subjecting and Objecting).