[Ross]

Originally Posted by Richard T

Hello gwynned.

Evolutionary ideologies? Well, they will appear evolutionary to the individual who interprets them to be so, and the same ideology will appear as being retardatory to others.

Ideologies have been used to control the fate of nations, to give direction to a people without identity. In turn, those people identified to ideologies and became vectors for them. But they did not develop anymore any real identity, since they identify to a construction that was given them, to something that directed their way of seeing things as a group.

Ideologies cannot stand the test of time because they are intrinsically temporary in nature. They are useful for a time and once society has brought the ideology to the full maturation of its agenda, it collapses on itself and is replaced with a new ideology that again is meant to give direction to the masses.

Even ideologies regarding a vengeful god of the old testament followed by an ideology of a compassionate god are steps in societal development and bring nothing more to the real understanding of reality. But, the ego accepts those as the answer to reality as he identifies to the ideological dogma.

Then, ideologies have been the projected base for conflicts between people and nations. Ideologies have fundamentally divided people against themselves.

We can try and support new ideologies to explain reality, but they will still be the result of ideas trying to account for the failure of past ideologies, rather than realizing that it is the whole process behind ideologies that is the problem.

Ideologies of the past have failed to free humanity from its condition. I cannot see why another ideology would do any better on that front. Ideologies are not there to support the freedom of the mind, which would be the result of an adequate explanation of reality, but they are rather tools of collective progress adapted to the need of experience of masses with no real identity. A person with a real identity cannot identify to anything that is not him. He therefore cannot limit himself to the scope of any ideology issued from mass thinking.

If ideologies were here to last, there would be no hope for humanity and the planet would have to be destroyed. Why? Because evolution would be compromised.

I agree, to quote the K again; one cannot understand violence without first understanding division. An idealogy innately implies that there can be another ideology, and thus division. Conflict is impossible without division. There will be no peace until man is no longer in conflict with himself and with others.