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I'm not sure I agree that ideology automatically shuts a mind. After all, being open-minded is an ideological position as well. I was just thinking that some i

• TeMPOraL 12y ago
  I was thinking about ideologies that work as a proxy for evaluating facts. It's kind of like saying that scientific method is also an ideology. In some sense, it is, but it's the one thing that's not like others. > I was just thinking that some ideologies seem to exist for the purpose of allowing people to justify their greedy behavior. Maybe. I try to be more charitable, especially that I know many friends that are (by their own admission [0]) borderline libertarian and are definitely neither greedy nor selfish. I think that it's a way how people respond to governments clearly overreaching with their regulations. It's a kind of cultural backlash, but if you treat it as an ideology, thinking that e.g. Free Markets Are The Best And Government Is Always Evil, then you're throwing baby out with the bathwater and trying to replace a bad hell with a worse hell. [0] - I try to avoid using such labels, because I think they shut down the mind. I personally might be more liberal on topic A, and lean more conservative on topic B, just because different methods work for different problems. Labeling things by political ideas make people lose that distinction. I've personally been called Marxist And Therefore Wrong by bringing up in a discussion the topic of tragedy of commons, which was immediately labeled as The Part Of Marxist Economy, Not The Real One. sigh