A kind of shame at existing, sometimes visible above the surface but mostly repressed, sometime expressed in its positive (that is negative) for but often in reverse as a sort of bravado or performative insouciance, seems to be the endemic driver behind so-called identity politics and much else, both identification and desire. This once would have been called original sin, or causeless dukkha, and it seems that it can only be resolved or alleviated via religious belief. It is the earnest attempts to put quasi-rational systems to work against this core malaise that have ended up doing the most harm. A formless malaise prior to pride, envy, lust or other sins, as a transcendental condition of waking consciousness.