Progressive cryptotheology asserts that the principle binding soul to body is – let us consider Becker here – “self”.

In parallel, the Progressive’s xiety (what they had, could have had, or pretended to have) must be “self-esteem”.

If this is so, then the Progressive anxiety would be the fear of the loss of self esteem.

There is a certain beauty in deduction, is there not?

The secular parallel to the cryptotheological assertion that “self-esteem is the one thing that we cannot lose” is nothing less than the pursuit of “the sense of not knowing any different” that permeated the world of our ancestors.  This was the world that humans evolved in.  Is it also our destiny?

Once Progressives achieve Total Self-Esteem, then “the things that words refer to” will become real and we all will not know any different.  We will also be bureaucratic zombies under mind control.  But that is a topic for another blog.