Now how many times do we have to endure a centrist commentator wringing their hands and complaining that so and so is "ideological" before we stagger through the next presidential election? It's just about as silly and tautological as complaining that homo sapiens has a brain.
Because what is really particular to the center - or the prevailing establishment for that matter - is a consciousness in which one's provincial - however far-reaching that province might be - beliefs and ideas are in fact elevated to an objective eternity, outside of which lie simple mistakes of opinion, error, lies, and even, god-forbid, mouth-foaming ideology which inspires an emotionally intense devotion that somehow lies outside the realm of cognition and comprehension, and is instead some sort of strange and separate element that acts with its own foreign and external logic and aims.
I say beware of the nose-wrinkling around "ideology," because it is the "non-ideological" that are the most fervent dogmatists of all. When one no longer sees one's own set of values - and the cognition based on those values - one can no longer be wrong or even entertain a merely different opinion. And thus everyone else must be "corrected."
And eternal, infallible truth bears all of the markers of imperial power, which is probably dangerous to anyone not in the business of licking boots.
