On Ideology

Ideology itself seems to be akin to a mental illness, because it deliberately removes you from this plane of existence and onto one of your own creation. My hypothesis is that it is akin to something in the schizo-affective disorder family, although it will take testing in order to confirm or deny that hypothesis.

I can't help it if some principles and some perspectives are more inherently rooted in ideology than others. The Right, for it's part, seems to operate on the notion that the abstractions of our world: relative social place and money, seem to matter at all in then grand scheme of things. Likewise, they seem to operate on the notion that the individual is somehow separated from the rest of society, such that it then possesses the right to destroy society and itself in the process of doing "well" by the individual.

The Left, for its part has its own ideologues and its own persons who are dysfunctional in their approach when it comes to meeting with demonstrable and empirical reality. They can just as easily finagle, rationalize and blot out parts of it in order to justify their stance and justify their already predetermined conclusions.

But the Right itself is fundamentally based on ideology and only ideology.

Which is, for example, how people living in Oklahoma and the Midwest during the 1930's Dustbowl ended up pleading for government support, got it, supported it, and then as soon as the crisis was over and their tangible needs were met, went back to hating on the government.

It's only ideology that fuels the right, while the Left is grounded in the principles that we are all one species, living in one cosmos as individuals in need of harmonization with the collective, and the collective in need of harmonization with the individuals that compose it.

That's what science is teaching us as we learn more about human sociability, human interactions, human interactions with the environment, human genetics, the physics of this place (quantum and Newtonian) and, in general, more about reality through the scientific process of empirical study.

Conservatives have a right to be upset with reality and claim that it has a Liberal bias, simply because that it really does.

And it's only in their brains that it actually works otherwise.

It's all from their brains that it works.

And you don't need to believe me in order for it to be the case.

Think about it.