Fundamentalism

Funda­men­tal­ism means stick­ing strict­ly to the script, which in turn means being deeply fear­ful of the impro­vised, ambigu­ous, or indeterminate…Since writ­ing is mean­ing that can be han­dled by any­body, any time, it is always pro­fane and promis­cu­ous. Mean­ing that has been writ­ten down is bound to be unhygienic…Fundamentalism is the para­noid con­di­tion of those who do not see that rough­ness is not a defect of human exis­tence, but what makes it work.
Ter­ry Eagleton
–The Guardian 22 Feb. 2003