Summary of text [comment] pages 67 and 68

[Why fixate on our lack of self-esteem?

We humans exist in spontaneous cultural orders generated by “God Recognizing Himself”. Our cultural orders emerge from the realm of possibility.

However, “the possibility inherent in God” (the former) is not the same as “the possibilities that support our particular spontaneous cultural orders” (the latter).

The latter are historical and finite. The former are ahistorical and infinite.

The former conditions the latter.

Our limitations speak to the latter. We are limited because “we are experiments within the spontaneous order”. Each experiment cannot avail itself to all the potential in a historical and finite system.

Nor can we fairly or reasonably apportion the potential of the system. Why? The potential of the system arises due to our variations. If all “the variation that is ourselves” produced the same outcomes, the spontaneous order would cease to exist.