Saturday, April 19, 2008

The cult of ideology

The Cult of ideology. No matter how you have been raised, brainwashed, however you want to call it as a child or whoever you let brainwash you even if it is you yourself as an adult doing the brainwashing, every ideology is cultish thinking. It is just that the more people who think like you around you the easier it is to justify whatever way you think. And when any country doesn't go along with your particular way of thinking you prepare for battle to force them to believe like you. However, to think like this is philosophically naive. It is true that one has to be exposed to all types of thinking to not be philosophically naive and it is true that only the most educated and well traveled tend to get to this place in consciousness. So de facto this means that wars will always take place and be fought usually by those less traveled and less philosophically aware of all of the various elements in the world. And because of this these soldiers will be manipulated and die because of those who will profit economically or through direct power because of their deaths. This is very unfortunate for those who become maimed mentally or physically or worse, dead. However, it has always been this way and is a part of the most animalistic side of mankind. Survival of the fittest and natural selection has always been in play since humans first arrived on earth.

1 comment:

... said...

Hi Fred. I agree with you on some points. But I also think (hope) that tools like the web are helping us 'bridge' some of those obstacles you mentioned.

While we may not be able to travel tools like the web are democratizing knowledge and access to information. This information includes knowledge about other countries. So, while we may not be able to afford to travel some of us may be able to at least learn about the way things are in other places.

Projects like Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiuniversity and others like it (open access movement) are opening the doors to more free education.

Keep up the blog. I honestly believe that it is insightful blogs like yours that challenge us to think will help more people become "fit" so that survival of the fittest ends up meaning survival for all.

Daniel Montano
my blog: http://multispective.wordpress.com