risaperis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:28 pm
Early on I decided that adopting an ideology was a sign of laziness as it carved a protective hole where one could curl up and feel content rather than think and feel unsure. What would Plato do, what would Jesus do, what would Marx do...on and on. If you don't want the labor of thinking then adopt an ideology. Ideology texts will tell you what to think.
Ideology is used in politics, but is it genuine, a guide through uncertainty, or is it a means to violence, wars, and revolutions, and aiding the select few in gaining power over the many? Is there anything redeeming in an ideology? Or is it merely a deceptive means towards a violent end?
The word 'ideology' can also just mean or refer to as 'that' what one sees as being an 'ideal' outcome, or an 'ideal idea', which others might see as being impossible to come about or just to fanciful to ever become true and real.
So, like absolutely all words and even all things, it all depends on how one is 'looking at' and 'seeing' things here.
'Ideology' like all other words just means whatever one wants 'it' to mean.
Asking what others think 'a word' means, while one has already chosen to believe what 'that word' means, and thus they are 'sitting in', 'curling up with', and feeling 'content' in their 'protective hole' 'now', can be 'looked at' and 'seen' as that one just fishing, luring, or 'trolling', for others to just pick a fight or argument with. While 'knowing' or more correctly 'believing' that they already have the one and only 'meaning', "them" 'self'.
The word 'ideology' can be a great thing when it is merely just 'an idea', which might well cause and create what 'it' is that every one, really, wants and desires. The 'ideology' of peace and harmony for and with absolutely every one, as One, for example, is 'ideology' of nothing that is deceptive, bad, wrong, nor which could nor would do any thing towards any thing other than what every one just Truly wants and desires anyway.
So, once more, it all depends on 'the way' one is 'looking at' and 'seeing' things, HERE.
If you want to 'look at' and 'see' 'ideology' as being deceptive, leading towards violence and wars and texts of will only tell you what to think, then you are perfectly free to have and hold onto this view or belief. But, just be aware that not all will share 'this ideology', or view, 'with you'.