OK, let us get back to unauthenticity and see how Lonergan is subversive.

The “surd” is the consequence of selective thinking.  It draws everything into its maw, except for whatever does not appear within its symbolic order.  When the authentic turn away, they become increasingly invisible, because they operate in a symbolic order that the New World Order has excluded.

I say, “New World Order” as a general term for the phenomena that includes Progressivism.

The remainder, whatever is ignored, unintelligible, intractable to (selective) reason, irresponsible, and unlovable belongs outside the absurd (note the directionality is included).    The remainder is excluded as the New World Order constitutes its absurdities.

The remainder is why, as Wiley put it, the resolution of the problem of development cannot be generated with humans themselves.  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.  So the resolution is to “let go”, to “withdraw” or to “step back and make re-orientation possible” for many of us.

For others, the resolution is conversion to another unauthenticity.

If “withdrawal” is truly possible, then Original Sin is not a complete degradation of human’s capacity for self-transcendence.  Baptism has relevance (and Lonergan is subversive).

If “withdrawal” is not truly possible, and “withdrawal” consists of conversion to another unauthenticity.  Baptism does not have relevance (and Lonergan is fatalistic).