Embedded or not, I still feel the absence of a center is true. The fact that "center" requires context to make sense is exactly the point. There's no clear "ide

Embedded or not, I still feel the absence of a center is true. The fact that "center" requires context to make sense is exactly the point. There's no clear "identity ideology," it requires an arbitrary choice. Put another way, you can subtract/compare ideologies: "X is a bit to the left of Y" (or "X is more in favor of policy P than Y" for any P in your high-dimensional space), but adding them doesn't really make sense.