Denying Our Unconditioned Nature

In Buddhism it would be wrong to believe that the five aggregates are somehow aspects of the self (ātman) which is to say that the aggregates are at bottom the ātman.  This, by the way, was the view of Saccaka who was refuted by the Buddha. 

The Buddha (even today misunderstood) saw the aggregates as not being the ātman, but as something alien like an illusion we are attached to, and even evil (Māra).  The aggregates by any measure  are empty of self-nature, in other words.  They are something we should not identify with as being our self according to the Buddha; that if we did we would fall into samsara and with it great suffering.

But this is the time of a dangerous inversion where the emotions rule (ideology) and first-person gnosis is scoffed at.  As a result, a huge majority only experience a growing confusion within that cannot be easily allayed.  It could be said that the path to truth, or right view, has been cut off or hidden in the wake of this confusion.

 But despair also grows but is now disguised as hope.  At the same time there is also a stubborn refusal to face what one has become and change course.  One’s life, instead, consists in a search for hope even if it means carelessly turning a religion like Buddhism into something it was never meant to be which is a denial of the intrinsic, that is, a denial of an unconditioned primary nature.

Do modern Buddhists think in this direction?  That is, do they deny the intrinsic in man?  Some do I would argue.  It is a view beginners often harbor.  I am puzzled as to why.