Originally Posted By: Ellis
Thislin-- you describe 'dogma', not 'ideology'.
Dogma is belief that does not brook being questioned. A single belief can be dogma. Ideologies are usually if not always bodies of dogma.

One might assert that some ideologies are good. I really doubt that this can be defended. If nothing else, a "good ideology" still has the characteristic of directing and limiting one's ability to see the subject from outside the assumptions and language of the ideology, and this is not good.

We all operate within the bounds of our ideologies, generally unaware of it, and the only good this does that I can see is to make our thought processes more efficient, as it makes it easy for us to reject things that don't fit. Is this good?