Because it can make you so narrow-minded you can see through a keyhole at 100 yards
It’s a good thing if and only if it’s the correct ideology. Otherwise, of course, it’s evil heresy.
John 8:32: Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
All claims that ideology is bad really mean “I don’t like your ideology.”
The question of this thread has been a long time coming.
Stop everything
I think I hear the President
The Pied Piper of the TV screen
Is gonna make it simple
And he’s got it all mapped out
And illustrated with cartoons
Too hard for clever folks to understand
They’re more used to words like:
Ideology
They’re not talkin’ ‘bout right and left
They’re talkin’ ‘bout
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see
So what ya think
You like the Yankees or the Mets this year
And what about this latest war of words
And what about the Commies
I saw the news last night
All illustrated with cartoons
So when they come with that opinion poll
They better not use words like
Ideology
Or try to tell me ‘bout the issues
Ideology
Whose side are you on
We’re talkin’ ‘bout
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see
Where are we?
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see
Joe Jackson - Right and Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTMojHyJ5E
FR should consider a “report obtuse” option in addition to “report abuse.” Ideology is not the same as just having ideas. There are two general definitions. One is philosophical. The one people use to refers to doctrine. That is, people often subscribe to a set of ideas, an ideology, which is the process of indoctrination. That happens mostly as a result of people being I’ll equipped to think for themselves, lack of critical thinking.
BAD ideology is a bad thing.
Russell Kirk:
“Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles.
“Perhaps it would be well, most of the time, to use this word “conservative” as an adjective chiefly. For there exists no Model Conservative, and conservatism is the negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.
“The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata. It is almost true that a conservative may be defined as a person who thinks himself such. The conservative movement or body of opinion can accommodate a considerable diversity of views on a good many subjects, there being no Test Act or Thirty-Nine Articles of the conservative creed.
“In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy “change is the means of our preservation.”) A people’s historic continuity of experience, says the conservative, offers a guide to policy far better than the abstract designs of coffee-house philosophers. But of course there is more to the conservative persuasion than this general attitude....
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
Has this guy been living under a rock for the last decade?
It's not ideas that's the problem. It's the systemic punishment by all the arms of government and established institutions of America of opposing ideas that is the problem.
It's using the IRS to defund conservative watchdog and Tea Party groups; it's using the FBI to spy on opposition campaigns; it's the nation's intelligence community listening into and revealing opposition private citizens' communications; it's quasi-utility telecom-enabled social media companies that block opposing ideas; it's justice departments that prosecute people for having opposing ideas; it's mass-market media trying to stop minority media ideas from being heard; it's government-mandated education departments that force agenda-driven ideas on children; it's all this that is such a Bad Thing.
-PJ
Ideology is like an oral contract. Not worth the paper it’s printed on. Which is exactly why the written law fails.
As soon as an ideological idea, or a law, is created, there begins an endless pursuit of loopholes, errors, misinterpretations, etc.
The founding fathers had several important axioms that they tried to follow. The first of these was do disagree with the philosophical idea that people are either “inherently good” or “inherently bad”. Instead the adopted the axiom that people are “inherently weak”, so a system of governance must account for this.
It does this with balancing of competing interests, and such balances fill the US constitution. The balance of federalism and anti-federalism; the balances of the three branches of government; the balance between large and small states; the balance of public and private interests; etc.
They could not balance the law of heaven with the law written by man, so with respect to The Creator, they declared the constitution and written laws to be exclusively the creation of men. So they could be changed by men without offending heaven.
And they made especially certain that while men could create laws, they were unable to change the natural laws found in the Bill of Rights.
So if America truly has an ideology, it is what is written in our Bill of Rights. Everything else is transient.
Ideology simply means the presence of IDEAS …Not according to any dictionary I have come across. The word is inextricably linked with rigid political systems, and political/economic ones in particular. Listed among its synonyms are “doctrine”, “dogma”, “credo” and suchlike.
America’s founders were ideologues …They were the opposite.
Duh, ideology is not mere ideas. In the sociological sense of the term, it means ideas mixed with economic interests.
Ideology is best understood by a well-known joke about cows:
Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
The first thought that popped into my head was the adage, “Don’t be so heavenly pure that you’re no earthy good.”
That fits with those who profess “principles” in my world. Yes, Rand. I’m talking about you and you’re vote today. We all have principles, but never let them get in the way of sound reason.
It depends on the ideology. An ideology is a systematic way of looking at ideas. That can be helpful in making sense of the world, but strict adherence can blind you to reality outside the limits of the ideolgy.
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