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To: blanknoone

Could you explain that? PLEASE.


3 posted on 09/29/2004 8:45:24 AM PDT by AdrianSpidle (Public Enquiry Project)
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To: AdrianSpidle
From dictionary.com:

1. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. 2. A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.

Ideology is a body of ideas. The concept of bodies of ideas is not good or evil or a danger. Particular idealogies can be good or evil or dangerous, but ideology is not and cannot be. Capitalism, conservatism, and even Christianity can be construed as ideologies as much as communism, nazism or Islamism. Ideology is not the problem. Particular ideologies are.

4 posted on 09/29/2004 10:21:27 AM PDT by blanknoone ("New Media? Is that somewhere in Jersey?" Dan Rather aka Dem Blather)
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