Ideology
Definition
Applications
"I'm not a fan of collectivists. I'm not a fan of people who put group identity first. I'm not a fan of people who would dare to identify as Marxists, after what happened in the 20th century. I'm not a fan of university professors who think their job is to take impressionable 18-year-olds and turn them into political activists despite the fact that they're not educated." [1]
Interpretations
There is a hatred of humanity at the base of ideologues. Why else would professors want to cripple their students by stripping them of any shreds of meaning they might have? And it is a constant refrain amongst environmentalists, that humanity is a blot on the planet, a virus.
2-year-olds think that their subjective feelings are the whole world, in a technical sense
There are so many things for people to do when they stop being dead puppets of sick ideas.
We ran the equity experiment in the 20th century, and it led to imprisonment, enslavement and execution, with 100 million corpses.
Ideology is a parasite on a religious substrate An ideologue believes:
- I know everything
- I am morally superior
- I know who my enemies are
Q: In your lectures, you define “religion” in opposition to “ideology.” Could you explain the difference between the two?
A: To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious there’s a mystery left there. The mystery is whatever God is. That mystery has the possibility of keeping you humble. You’re not the ultimate authority, and you’re accountable in some ultimate sense.
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