Because of the narrow focus of Peters’ book, I extended his formalism from the private occluding magic of Satan (which Peters contrasts with the clarifying magic of the New Age Movements) to the current (2012) religion (that contrasts with the private cults of dark and light magic): the Public Cult of Progressivism.
Pride(Anxiety(FaithProgressivism)) is the nested form underlying this Cult.
As before, pride is the feeling that one can define reality. Pride defines what is to be esteemed by the “self”. Pride defines “groups” that progressive individuals can belong to – to the point – of “not knowing any different”.
Anxiety is the fear of loss of one’s xiety (what one has, could have had, or pretends to have).
Progressive xiety is “self-esteem”.
The Progressive will aggressively resist loss of “self-esteem” and attack others who appear to challenge their pursuit of “self-esteem”.
At the same time, the imposition of their “constructions of esteem” on others, through law (the central state), indoctrination (state education), and propaganda (the conformist media), always shifts the boundary of what constitutes an insult.