Remember what Carse says: performatively low status is an anti-title. To play at being below everything, to posit a conspicuous absence, is the same move as playing above everything.
Anyone talking about abstract/intangible stuff "being shoved down our throats" can safely be ignored. If it's not literally an object being inserted into your throat, there's probably a better way to phrase it than that; and if you insist on using that phrase I'm just gonna assume it is a Freudian indicator of your own personal kinks & fetishes.
If I'm talking to a person and they reference the concept of balance then I stop taking them seriously.
Look, folks, there's only one forbidden fruit and only one vengeful Source. Eco socialism needs to get its own metaphysics.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.