OK, let us get back to unauthenticity and see how Lonergan is subversive.<\/p>\n
The \u201csurd\u201d is the consequence of selective thinking.\u00a0 It draws everything into its maw, except for whatever does not appear within its symbolic order.\u00a0 When the authentic turn away, they become increasingly invisible, because they operate in a symbolic order that the New World Order has excluded.<\/p>\n
I say, \u201cNew World Order\u201d as a general term for the phenomena that includes Progressivism.<\/p>\n
The remainder, whatever is ignored, unintelligible, intractable to (selective) reason, irresponsible, and unlovable belongs outside the absurd (note the directionality is included).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The remainder is excluded as the New World Order constitutes its absurdities.<\/p>\n
The remainder is why, as Wiley put it, the resolution of the problem of development cannot be generated with humans themselves.\u00a0 The remainder know that the social surd is absurdity incarnate, that rationality cannot be found in the tropes of the absurdists, and that all paths to authenticity demands a re-orientation.\u00a0 So the resolution is to \u201clet go\u201d, to \u201cwithdraw\u201d or to \u201cstep back and make re-orientation possible\u201d for many of us.<\/p>\n
For others, the resolution is conversion to another unauthenticity.<\/p>\n
If \u201cwithdrawal\u201d is truly possible, then Original Sin is not a complete degradation of human\u2019s capacity for self-transcendence.\u00a0 Baptism has relevance (and Lonergan is subversive).<\/p>\n
If \u201cwithdrawal\u201d is not truly possible, and \u201cwithdrawal\u201d consists of conversion to another unauthenticity.\u00a0 Baptism does not have relevance (and Lonergan is fatalistic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, let us get back to unauthenticity and see how Lonergan is subversive. The \u201csurd\u201d is the consequence of selective thinking.\u00a0 It draws everything into its maw, except for whatever does not appear within its symbolic order.\u00a0 When the authentic turn away, they become increasingly invisible, because they operate in a symbolic order that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n