Can We Live without an Army of Convictions?

As previous posts have amply shown, I'm not a big fan of mindfulness as a quasi-religious ideology.   I’m not going to propose a specific counter-ideology. Sure, I have beliefs about what makes life worthwhile, what matters, the is and the ought.  Merely having beliefs is not the same as adhering to an ideology. To the extent that we think, feel, perceive, speak, or move, our brains are assuming a version of reality. To the extent that we are ethical and goal-directed creatures, we have a sense of what is good and desirable. To the extent that we are able to articulate our assumptions, values and goals, you could say we have “beliefs”.  Run-of-the-mill beliefs are held with more or less conviction, are more or less systematized and are more or less contradicted by other beliefs produced inside the same head. Beliefs surface and then sink into cognitive obscurity. Beliefs are often wimpy cognitions without allies. 

In contrast, ideologies are convictions bolstered by an army of related convictions.