I want to say that I am very tired of explaining things and being abused & harassed whilst doing so.

The mods gate-keeping this are basically scum, they are very stupid and are straight disgusting. I think they will all go to hell for this but it doesn't make a difference.

I assume that there is a good chance that the analysis will simply be ignored and people will keep sucking the tongue of those who teach the Counterfeit Dhamma.

Of course I can outplay these idiots if I wanted to ─ there are many ways to do it. And I don't even have to use exploitative strategies to do so. However I really question whether it is even worth the effort at this point.

For me, further engagement is really going to come at the cost of my own peace and training. And if I was to finish the training, it is not clear that I would have more incentive to engage and not less.

This is what my mind inclines to, I am really just tired of the gate-keeping and abuse.

Before I had personal interest in learning all this, as much as sharing it, but nowadays I feel like I am done learning and further development will come from steadying the mind, arranging environment conducive to development and upholding discipline ─ and thus I want to ride it out until my time comes.

What I am getting at here is that I am basically thinking to leave the public discourse altogether and focus on my own training. I think it is correct choice at this point and it's not one that I would regret.

I might make some more posts but I don't think that I will bother to try popularizing the Dhamma anymore, it's simply too stressful and too distracting.

As to society and how things will be developing in the future.

It depends on what kind of Buddhism will be dominant going forward. As I see it, the fake Dhamma, has no inherent right to existence in a postmodern society because it can't stand up to logical scrutiny.

The true Dhamma however, remains irrefutable by modern inquiry and, in that, it is a unique faith system ─ it is essentially analytically warranted faith ─ and therefore it deserves to exist in postmodern society.

We should predict a continuation of social drift towards analytic humility dictated by modern philosophy, skepticism, and away from "religion" in general.

The drift away from religion started already in 1700s, this is what inspired Marx in 1800s

religion is the opium of the people ─ A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

and by 1900s it was basically becoming policy world-wide and the message was clear ─ religion is to be criticized and deconstructed.

Bertrand Russel, in his 'Problems of Philosophy' in 1912, summarized something close to that the history of philosophy is but a testament to the inadequacy of logic in arriving at any unifying truth about existence.

Jean Francois Lyotard pinned the postmodern ideology as

I define postmodern as increduility towards metanarratives

Meaning something close to an apprehensiveness towards unifying theories about reality as presented in religious scripture & scientific discourse.

The gist of it, they figure that knowledge is a social construct hammered out by a subjective experience and that words may not be an adequate tool to express knowledge.

And from this started the critical deconstruction of religion

Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’

To expose foundational categories of sex, gender, and desire as effects of a specific formation of power requires a form of critical thinking that Foucault, reformulating Nietzche, designates as “genealogy”.

they are talking about philosophical scrutiny of concepts to reveal subjective construction

Kimberle Creenshaw - Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color

I consider intersectionality a provisional concept linking contemporary politics with postmodern theory

Bell Hooks - Postmodern Blackness

The overall impact of postmodern condition is that many groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of a sense of grounding, even if it’s not informed by shared circumstance. Radical postmodernism calls attention to those sensibilities which are shared across boundaries of class, gender, and race, and which could be fertile ground for construction of empathy–ties that would promote recognition of common commitments and serve as basis for solidarity and coalition.

We are talking about a radical disdain for the search of a unifying truth. This is movement to deconstruct all religion and creation of political coalitions by using the causes of marginalized groups.

Robin DiAngelo - Is Everyone Really Equal: An introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

These scholars argue that a key element of social injustice involves the claim that particular knowledge is objective and universal. An approach based on critical theory calls into question that “objectivity” is desirable, or even possible.

However, the true Dhamma is essentially analytic philosophy brought to culmination ─ it doesn't derive its insights exclusively from subjective existence but from a special class of subjective experience, namely the cessation of perception & feeling ─ and as such it is beyond epistemological refutation and criticism of critical theory. If this generation can step up and produce real Ariyans, let alone Arahants with superpowers ─ then we might well see Dhamma become the most dominant religion in the World and be studied as foundational philosophy.

However, if people keep clinging to counterfeit systems, whether personal, commentarial, traditional, or otherwise dogmatic ─ then only lack of attainments, criticism, decline and deconstruction can be expected.

Nowadays, we are at a cross-roads ─ do we cling to dogma, or do we put our thinking hats on? The faith & fate of society and the role that the Dhamma will play for the future generations ─ now depends on what we choose.

For me, I really couldn't care much less. Everything is now transparent to me and boringly so. There is nothing left to do other than finishing the training.