Ok so I had a few days to let this clarify. Firstly I’d like to say thank you @claudiu for putting the time and energy into unraveling this thing and in general with sticking with the topic even through the messy bits. I see your involvement now as sincerity rather than trying to be difficult or asserting some actualist authority (as I saw it previously).
I agree with your general assessment in this post, with regards to what the rift is all about, how it came to be and where it can potentially lead one astray.
So I was thinking about this, and the only answer I have been able to come up with is that the ‘something else’ seems more familiar, more ‘human’. Which upon further reflection it becomes clear that this hanging onto something ‘human’ or familiar, is nothing else but sneaking in the ‘tried and true’ in some form or another.
Which also makes me appreciate why it may be important even for those who are newly free, to proceed all the way into full actual freedom, as those remnant bits which link them back to ‘humanity’ can become an issue, as we have seen happen here. Essentially the newly free individual may hold up a misleading ‘land here’ sign, I can see why Richard being pure intent personified would advise people to aim for him.
The other thing about the ‘style of communication’ comments and my resistance to specifics. I see this now as a cunning way for ‘me’ to hide, the devil does indeed hide in the details, so of course ‘he’ is against meticulously delving into them!
Which brings me to the next bit - frustration. This whole thing of “come on man, stop being so pedantic” is no less than saying “come on man, simply believe me!”, the frustration is because I want to believe and to be believed and yet I know deep down that if I was to be meticulous then it would become clear that there is actually no substance there, that it is just belief.
I see this as a general trend now with reading Richard’s writing, at times it’s like it’s painful for ‘me’, there is this cognitive dissonance there. But this resistance is all to do with ‘me’, not with the facticity of the writing, a feeling is not a fact.
With regards to originality I also agree with your assessment, if I take the same path as the 100 people in front of me, because it is actually the quickest path, that is simply sensible.
What is not sensible is to take the longer / more difficult path just so that I can fancy myself as someone original, this is like a perversion of what originality is about.
This perverted originality is actually still rooted in authority, as in it has to believe in authority in order to try opposing it in this way. Like the teenager trying to prove their independence by always doing the opposite of what their parents ask, where is the freedom in that?