File this one under the cateogory of rants:

There’s nothing worse than an ideologue. I’m tired of people telling me what I should believe or what I should be doing. (In fact, I’m tired of the word ’should’ altogether.) I’m tired of subtle (or not so subtle) value judgements and comparisons. I love to hear other people’s ideas, perhaps most especially when they aren’t the same as mine, and I don’t mean to suggest that people shouldn’t express what they believe in what they say and how they act. But I don’t want to be constantly hit over the head with someone’s ideology. Simply expressing what one believes is not enough to make an insufferable ideologue - it’s feeling the need to be explicit about justifying it all the time. I don’t want to be made to feel defensive because of the comparison between another person’s ideas (the ‘right’ ideas) and my own. Ideology is fine sometimes, but it’s the worst kind of thing when it pops up too often.

…at least it was a relatively short rant.