Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
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Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.