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--- politics:ideasarealive [2022/03/17 01:38] – Owen Mellema
+++ politics:ideasarealive [2022/03/18 19:57] (current) – [The problem with ideology] Owen Mellema
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 ("Usefulness" is anything that improves a person's life. So, a game is a positive idea, as is a song, a recipe, etc.)
-The second category is //negative ideas//.
+The second category is //negative ideas//. These are ideas that spread by other any other means besides objective benefit.
+Now, positive ideas could be described as being "pro-human". That is, positive ideas "want" to improve human's lives, as this is how they propagate. On the other hand, negative ideas often grow to become "anti-human". That is, any benefit provided by the idea is tangential to it's purpose of propagating by any means necessary, meaning that they become vestigal and eventually get shaved away as cruft.
+===== Application to politics =====
+==== The problem with ideology ====
+Political Ideologies are almost always negative ideas. That's not to say that it is wrong to hold political opinions, or even that it is wrong to be politically active. It is only through the efforts of dedicated groups of political activists that positive change can occur within the government. For example, if there were no political activists during the Civil Rights movement, would there have ever been a change in the way that society treated black people?
+What I am more focused on is a particular type of political community, where likeminded people slowly transform from individuals with distinct opinions into nothing more than a mouthpiece for a vague set of ideas, sacrificing their own quality of life for no discernable benefit to themselves. These groups of people are growing, entrapping more and more people in their ranks. While most people can see this form the other side of the political spectrum, few are willing to introspect and consider that it is also happening to them.
+It seems to me that there are two types of politically active people. On the one hand, you have a group of people that is more interested in finding solutions, and achieving their goals, than squabbling over pedantry. On the other hand, you have a group of people that believe it is locked in mortal combat with another group of people, who distorts reality such that it favors them, and that care more about "scoring points" than either being objectively correct or achieving goals.