Now, I will take another step.

According to Lonergan, within the social surd, the human is faced with disorienting biases.

Lonergan’s adoption of the word “surd” is both clever and ironic.  “Surd” is the root of “absurd”.  The prefix “ab” means “toward”.

To me, by leaving out the “ab”, Lonergan contradicts the directionality or “selectivity” that unauthenticity always seems to have.  This makes the surd appear to be like matter – already there – the existential milieu for human development.

Still the surd is alive.  The surd eats, dragging everything into its yawning chasm.