The use of "ideology" invites commentary. Just about all political and social systems are ideological in one form or another. The "liberal" ideology of the secular humanist variety popular in some Western democracies has its own peculiar style and jargon for codifying the bureaucratic processes of statist expansion, cultural decadence, and wealth redistribution. Totalitarian ideologies of the modern type are certainly distinctive in their utopian and eschatological fanaticism, but so were Islam and the Mongol Empire. Political manipulation by complex power systems is at least as old as the pyramids and the Pharaohs. That ordered liberty of the constitutional type developed within the Christian sphere of Western civilization is of some philosophical interest. All societies have ontological presuppositions of one sort or another which define reality. Where modern ideologies have distorted reality is usually where the problems arise. In the age of mass media, it becomes of interest who controls the dominant discourses about the society's structure, ideology, and disputational processes.