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No matter how hard I try, when I publish an article it’s very clear from the comments that some people have no idea what I’m trying to say.

Also, they don’t have a single inkling that not only do they not understand the article but they don’t understand the subject matter either. Not even a little bit.

Where comes this lack of self awareness?

Well, I have decided to name it ‘intellectual bypassing’. Although these people are sincerely trying to follow and participate in the discussion on the subject, there is a widespread tendency for these individuals to avoid recognizing their own undeveloped minds and education.

Just as an aside I reckon this is a sign of a bigger problem, one flowing from a lack of secure attachment as a child and all the resulting issues that flow.

Back to intellectual bypassing; we used to say ‘know what you don’t know’. Now I suspect a large majority silently believes (without knowing it) that they should ‘not know what everyone else doesn’t know’.

These people need to recognize that everything they comment on in ignorance is a mirror of something they are not facing or acknowledging in themselves. These unconscious projections and reactions always become played out externally in groups.

I believe that our society is actually being slowly engineered to support people’s sense of alienation and disconnection. There is simply no feedback or critique worth having. Things are not improving.

No amount of spiritual development by individuals will be worth having if we can’t absorb and encode that learning so that others may follow.

After all, knowing the empty nature of attachment, I know that my motivation to benefit sentient beings must supersede it.

And by definition this will only work if everyone knows and believes it. There’s no point if it’s just me and a few scattered Lamas. That’s a fail.