@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
@meaning_enjoyer a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.
systems that should enable human beings to flourish often do the exact opposite.
Brian Fikkert • Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People
God doesn’t support our ideas and options - He defines them.
They multiply and spread from one host to another, occasionally weakening the hosts and sometimes even killing them. A cultural idea – such as belief in Christian heaven above the clouds or Communist paradise here on earth – can compel a human to dedicate his or her life to spreading that idea, even at the price of death. The human dies, but the id
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Ideology as religion, religion as ideology
billion dollar idea from @m_ashcroft: learn how to distinguish “this feels wrong” (harmful to me) from “this feels wrong” (unfamiliar to me)
The mass society then was trying something very new (as I pointed to above)—calling for duty and obligation without transcendence. So duty that leads to conformity is seen as only a cultural reality bound in consumptive choice.