Had a little thought. We tend to characterize ideologies in internal (“subjective”) or external (“objective”) terms, but in practice work with them in intersubjective ways, where the first class citizen is the directed ideology pair like (capitalism, communism).
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Trick to breaking out of these patterns is to ignore analyses that do not center specific behaviors of named people. When you do that, it will turn into a game of no-true-Scotsman. Pick 2 of 3: a name, an ideology, responsibility for a problem
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If you ditch ideology, you’ll at least find someone to hold accountable within your means. Not vote for them, not work with them, not buy their stuff etc. This is what cancel culture clumsily tries to do, except via mob judgment contagion rather than actual distributed judgment.
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Everybody was all bullish on ideologies a few years back, and many people wanted to work on them, innovate on them, etc. Now everybody is sick of them, and tries or pretends to be above them. But they aren’t going anywhere. Good time to invest actually.
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"Ideology is poisonous. It's not that there are good ideologies and bad ideologies -- ALL ideology is poisonous. Because to have an ideological position assumes that you understand the nature of reality. How likely is that? How likely is that?" - Terence McKenna
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This is a meaningless criticism by a self-important mystic. Ideology is just a given of human behavior that manifests under certain conditions. Calling it poisonous is like calling gravity poisonous or hair poisonous.
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That's basic Genealogy of Morals. Virtue Ethics (and Chinese Confucian equiv) would situate failure in "bad individuals". Modern theories situate failure in "bad situations". Is this progress? Probably, net. BUT
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-It sweeps over the case (perhaps infrequent, but definitely real) of bad individuals. - It leads to so much disagreement over the nature of the bad situations that some progress has ground to a halt.
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