I get it now: Excess ideology is a sign that a person needs excess ideology to commit to something, eg that it's not their normal, default state. In a society that requires/"rewards" natural slaves, even someone whose ideology extols the virtues of slavery is defective property.
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If you are a landless urban pleb without good social connections, publicly committing to an ideology is the only way to access patronage.
Pseudo-ideology. Real ideologies, the kind that are logically consistent and require thought, accomplish the opposite aim. There's a difference between memorizing dumb slogans like "If you don't like it, you can leave" and reading thousands of pages of books in search of truth.
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Truth is orthogonal to ideology.
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The truths most people can agree on are: - the physical state of nature - money - bureaucratic titles or "names" Ideology tends to deal with questions of the legitimacy of these things (to what extent Heaven approves or disapproves).
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