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Originally Posted by mickmoranis
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there in lies the paradox my good friend as once you accept these realities then you become part of the very thing you attempt to separate yourself from unaware of it until a new hive mind repeats the process as did the ones before us.
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Oh I know Mick ^^ But that doesn't make ideology any less damning. It's most often stagnant thought :c Nothing generally comes of it butt the same stale reasoning and worn ideas. I suppose it is unfair to say ideology is stupid though because the embrace of reason and skepticism in itself is ideologic. It just happens that
those ideals lead to ever evolving understanding and one would hope eventually, truth.
The underlying problem with any belief system or world view is: why? What is the fundamental purpose or goal of, well, anything? That radically alters what reason would suggest
should be in any given context. The problem with ideology is that people most often never consider those most basic questions of what ought to be. They accept a set of embellished premises that prevent them from ever considering those basic questions.
This is important because through reason, the most basic questions will
always lead to the same understanding. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that elegance and accuracy are the measure of ideological validity ^^ The most correct ideology is the one which is most accurate and most elegant. That ideology is reason ^^