"I feel it's more important own such a desire, to feed it, to indulge it, even nurture it; to go with the inner flow however so derived. All human culture is based on agreed sets of values"

The logical conclusions of "feeding, nurturing or indulging" a craving for pedantic absolutes, has resulted in the real world throughout human history, in very real and horrendous war and genocide (amongst other horrors of human paranoia in the face of the impossible).

That IMO, is a different and far more dodgy matter than aknowleging and accepting the relativism and collective pragmatic utility of "agreed sets of values".