It will be the responsibility of the integral bodhisattva to orient the intentions of others toward a single common enemy, this time understood globally, not as scarcity nor terrorism, but as the human quality of pride and its dangers. But this lesson will be learned at an increasingly sensory level, so that there will someday be a common consensus that being proud is never worth it. It will be taken for granted that as part of growing up, one must learn to seek out information that will contradict one’s opinions.
The integral bodhisattva will need to create the “enemies” faced by each developmental level, using the secret pith instructions in the pre/trans fallacy skilfully as a matrix upon which to plot the course of history as fantasy, choosing which societal deadlocks (era-specific “eternal debates”) will facilitate the most harmonious transitions possible between stages of life.
If he can wedge into public consciousness the full implications of pride as disavowed resistance to surprising information, he will sensitise ordinary people to the need for intentional reality testing at a sensory level.
One of the most damaging aspects of social media’s influence on the human psyche is how it simultaneously accelerates the mind’s dawning insight into its hive-like qualities and encourages it to define itself as an individual within a hive. Through social media the sufferer is forced into an awareness of the collective gaze and pressured to hold himself responsible for the jouissance of the collective. This is a kind of emergent metaparanoia, self-aggrandising impotence that will not even pity itself.
What could better exemplify pride?
BEATING THE POISONED DRUM 