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If you mean coberst has failed to understand that being "self-critical" is antithetical to concepts of "self-worth" then I agree with you. All that Socratic nonsense about the pursuit of "knowledge" and "virtue" becomes vacuous from a meditative position involving "self dissipation" and holistic empathy. From such a position, the "self" is seen as a transient social construction whose nature shifts with ephemeral events. Such "truth" cannot be understood by an illusory "self".

Unlike coberst himself. his hero Bohm understood this point, hence his communism and banishment from the USA. In later years Bohm's philosophical activities became more "spiritual" than "political", but like his associate Krishnamurti who adressed the UN on the subject, his empathic message was of little value to those concerned with "self-integrity".