>If you don't have an ideology, you just end up creating your own inconsistent ad hoc ideology from scratch. I'm not sure that is accurate (when applied to ind

>If you don't have an ideology, you just end up creating your own inconsistent ad hoc ideology from scratch. I'm not sure that is accurate (when applied to individuals). If we define an ideology as a way of assigning moral value to things that is comprehensive enough so that almost any decision can be viewed through "the ideological lens", then some people are many orders of magnitude less influenced by ideologies than other people are. What is futile is to ignore or prevent the effects of ideologies on a society or a large organization because people who share an ideology cooperate much more effectively than people who do not, and this has powerful effects on politics and the management of organizations.