Instinctive reverence? as in
http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB/JGB-263 ?
I feel (we're talking about instinct here) it's both: nonsense, to be practised over a lifetime. Apollo/the Emperor says nonsense, Dionysus/Slaanesh says "yes".
We ought to both revere, and R34*, our ideals: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmbdsfaU8AA0lrY.jpg
There's probably a lot to be said for more education in partial orders: Saturnalia / Carnaval / Cabaret all invert some things but leave other [eigen?]things invariant: mirror Cartman is kind and helpful, but mirror Spock and Spock are the same (up to facial hair).
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUctFu46_c , is the singer promising the middlebrow, den sogenannten Gebildeten, den Gläubigen der „modernen Ideen“, that they have nothing to lose but their antichains?
Those who force total order (the high and the low in FWN's model) are as mistaken as those who force total noncomparability (the mid, in whose worst instincts, total equality « différence engendre haine » is forced)?
Interesting that FWN uses the metaphor of dirty water when extolling biblical reverence; in the buddhist (and materialist, via hydrophobic surfaces) tradition the lotus has nothing to fear from muddy water, it just rolls off "like water off a duck's back". Maybe that's a way to test ideals? PKD said reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it; a respectable ideal should still seem worthwhile even when you're making fun of it?
* Pope "Paco" probably worries less about Madonna/whore dichotomies than that Princess Peach gets way more pixels.