The intent to communicate.

The human mind is divided into two intents. The original intent is to
perceive and communicate, and the contrived intent, which is the one
we have established as the key to human progress and experience, is
to be duped and to deceive. If we are not duped we disappoint
authority, which is bad politics and certain to reduce our
renumeration, and if we do not deceive we have no authority of our
own.

The original intent accompanies the contrived intent. In other words the
intent to communicate accompanies the intent to deceive. We can not
have the intent to deceive as a substitute for the intent to
communicate, but just as an alternative focus. Perhaps we have all
heard it said that a criminal always has an unconscious desire to
help the law catch him, so that he leaves clues behind no matter how
conscientiously he tries not to. So while we are being duped the
person doing it to us is also communicating with us, and if we want
to free ourselves of our conditioned responses, what we must do is
find out how and where we are attuned to this communication.

It seems to the experience, experience being what comes of being duped,
that this faculty where we are attuned to the unconscious
communication of those who are consciously trying to con us (to add more images to our accumulation of experience), must be very subtle, like a
subsonic dog-whistle. This is because, according to experience, everything
clearly observable seems perfectly accounted for. However, there is a
serious error in this accounting. There is nothing subliminal about the evolved sense to communicate and to perceive this communication. We are all receiving
the communication in a very obvious but incomplete way. The only
problem is that we allow the conscious self to interpret it,
rendering it vacuous, hollow.