First, a great many thanks for such a lucid essay on a difficult topic within the most important question we humans have no choice but to answer: how should governance be governed?

To my mind, the fundamental error in both Critical Theory and Postmodernism has been to perpetuate the mistake committed by 'Enlightenment' thinkers: equating 'secular' with 'rational'. That ideologies are based on secular beliefs, just as theologies are based on sacral beliefs, accounts for their 'totalizing' tendency. ‘Equality’ is one such belief: I count Marx as a radical equalitarian who conjured up a ‘scientific’ ‘explanation’ for his personally preferred societal construct — and so is a belief in a priori ‘Rights’, such as ‘Natural Rights’, with ‘liberty’ second only to life itself.

So, my studies have taught me that what is actually needed for justly governing governance is an ethic that involves no beliefs, but is wholly contained — its determinant and its referents — within material existence. Over the course of four decades — my brain is more like a mule than a thoroughbred — I have (fully) developed such an approach to justly governing governance. It generates what can be called an ‘other-centered individualism’ — but that is a result of this strictly materialist ethic, not an arbitrarily conceived starting point for yet another attempt to make some belief, some bit of purely personal ‘truth knowledge’, the source of ‘justice’.

if curious: "Alright, Already" (here in Medium, but not behind the paywall)