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Why is ideology like a prism?

Webster says a prism is “a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it”.

It appears to me that Marx was the first great thinker to have coined the word “ideology”. Ideology is a distinctive form of reasoning about the individual and about the individual in society. Ideology is a systematically biased mode of thinking. Ideologies vary extensively in so far as the idioms used, the extent of bias, the degree of sophistication, the manner in which bias permeates various aspects of theory, and so on.

While ideologies vary widely in certain aspects all ideologies share some common characteristics. An identifiable logical structure is shared by all. This structure includes: 1) a moral dimension, 2) it is biased toward a specific group and is biased against those out side this group, 3) an ideology cannot not directly defend it self because it rests on assumptions that have never been critically examined or even formulated, and 4) Marx believes these assumptions to be “nothing more than the intellectual ‘transcripts’ of the conditions of existence of the social group whose point of view it reflects”.

Like viewing the world through a prism, the ideologue experiences the world in a distorted manner. “What a man does not transcend in reality, he cannot effectively transcend in thought either. The limits of his existence are the limits of his thoughts. His basic assumptions are therefore ultimately nothing but his conditions of existence ‘reproduced’ in thought.”

Quotes from Marx’s Theory of Ideology Bhikhu Parekh

Because by AWT theories and ideologies are density gradients in causual space by the same way, like density gradients of matter. After all, the main purpose of theories and ideas is to accelerate and intesify the information spreading trough society by the same way, like formation of density gradients intensifies energy density spreading inside of condensed matter.

By such way, ideas are physical artifacts like any others and they can have a tangible impact into reality. I'm disputing some consequences of this concept here and here, for example. By my understanding ideologies appears like space-time foam or branes, which constrains symmetry of our thinking into few or even single one direction(s).


But this is every theory, because without density gradient no causual energy or information could propagate at distance. The fact, water surface enables to spread huge density of energy in transversal waves at large distance is just a fact, it's formed by density gradient. The chaotic atemporal environment remains unbiased, but it appears like void and atemporal system of dummy tautologies.

By AWT every theory remains biased and as such "wrong" in less or more distant space-time perspective, because it's always based on the nonzero number of axioms or postulates, which are inconsistent mutually. At the moment, when would use an internally fully inconsistent postulates, we could replace them by the single one, thus leading into tautological TOE. This effectivelly means, a causual bias (i.e. time arrow) is the necessary condition, which enables to see & describe at least something from our reality. But the same causual bias leads us into informational black hole, i.e. singularity, because its surface divergence remains cummulative. It manifests itself by total reflection phenomena (a censorship) in close-minded individuals or sectarian group, because every information bounces from surface of density gradient of information like light from surface of glass sphere or mirror-like bubble.