Homeostatic Extremism: Or, “At least it’s an ethos!”

Homeostatic Extremism: Or, “At least it’s an ethos!”

Since the only other news I’ve found today concerns unimportant issues like ecological disaster, here’s another good post from An und für sich about the “wisdom position”…and a clip:

…an abstract desire for “conviction” as such, without regard for the content, is itself deeply relativistic — and relativistic in a much more dangerous and virulent way than the standard liberal relativism.

On the other hand, in line with what Zizek talks about, I think this is what liberals find refreshing about characters like Buchanan in the U.S. and Le Pen in France: they offer a genuinely political position, however heinous it may be, in contrast to our current post-political discourse. So, while in some cases ‘conviction’ might lack any substantial ideology, I think it still offers a better solution than the modernist, pseudo-Habermasian one.

(And added points for The Big Lebowski reference.)