Frigidweirdo
Well-known member
- Joined
- May 7, 2019
- Messages
- 1,945
- Reaction score
- 461
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
No, that isn't my argument, and I'm surprised you misunderstood my position so severely. My argument is that ideology, a system of ideas, is rooted far deeper in human psychology than most people appreciate, and that claiming to only focus on the "truth of what's best for society" is nothing more than being unaware of one's own system of ideas & the value judgments that shape your worldview.
My argument, in short, is that you don't know what the word ideology even means when you write it off as a bad thing, apparently for no particular reason beyond "Nazis and Commies are wrong."
Well, I guess first we need to look at the definition of "ideology".
ideology | Definition of ideology in English by Lexico Dictionaries
"1 A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy."
"1.1 The set of beliefs characteristic of a social group or individual."
Ideology - Wikipedia
"An ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.[1] In other words, these rely on basic assumptions about reality that may or may not have any factual basis. The term is especially used to describe systems of ideas and ideals which form the basis of economic or political theories and resultant policies."
"In political science the term is used in a descriptive sense to refer to political belief systems"
So, essentially we have the term "ideology" which is quite vague, however points to a view point which has been made. Therefore individuals will look to their ideology to determine how they should deal with any given situation. I could give many examples of such things.
Then opposed to ideology I'm going to suggest there's something called "fundamental principles". This is like a much weaker version of ideology, and also it doesn't cover everything.
For example a fundamental principle might be that people should have self determination. This doesn't cover every area of life, just how people vote and who they're voting for.
So, I believe that an ideology is bad because it has a tendency of making people partisan, it leads to a lack of thinking, it leads to a sheep mentality.