> ideologies are very difficult to destroy and take a long time to fully extinguish I like that you used "extinguish" here. I'm not sure if you intended it, b

> ideologies are very difficult to destroy and take a long time to fully extinguish I like that you used "extinguish" here. I'm not sure if you intended it, but I think the behavioural psychology definition of "extinguish" is especially relevant. In other words, to get rid of the ideology, we'd have to not reinforce it: i.e. to neither reward it or punish it. And yes extinction[1] takes a long time. Also see "extinction burst". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(psychology)