Why Is Fundamentalism So Attractive?

The fashionable place of fundamentalism in history has found a place in the here and now. Why do we all find our knees eventually bending in the pantheon of fundamentalism? The pantheon refers to all kinds of different types of fundamentalism which we are going to dissect in this article. But, why is fundamentalism so attractive? Why are we, who are part of the human project (we’re not human yet) so enthralled by fundamentalism? What intrigues us? The sense of a safety that a system inhabits? Practices, repetitions, mediations. We live in an era of history where we prefer mediation over direct-experience (i.e., government, politicians, organizations, prisons, police and so on). As Gilles Deleuze once said: Desire desires its own repression. The rest of this article attempts to explain why.