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Re: Spot a faulty ideology
by
Snail2
on 13/10/2014, 14:18:13 UTC
About modern Democracy, it doesn't fit in a single point of the list. Democracy is a hollow ideology, all it states is to let people vote. The parts you are referring to as fitting the list are the political parties that reside inside a Democracy.

Agree not really an ideology more like a framework. But:

- This framework is portrayed as the best available system and solution for almost everything.
- This framework provides ready made models (quite natural for a framework).
- This framework is portrayed as a paradise as opposed to the autocratic systems, and there are always some sort of evil antidemocratic or irresponsible economic   groups to blame for its poor performance.
- This framework handling "non compliant" elements on not a same but a similar way as any other ideology. The only differences are using legal, economic and social "violence" instead of waterboarding and "corrective hard labor". But nowadays as ppl who leaving or attempting to leave the ideology are often condemned as domestic terrorist or extremists.
- This framework "states people has to be compelled" or democracy will be exported. By force if needed...

Soooooo... I'm afraid our mighty western democratic framework isn't that far from any random rogue ideologies than it should be... or your list isn't complete yet Smiley.
Probably any human made or human propagated ideology fits to this list. I think mathematics and physics are the only good "ideologies", but not quite that amusing for the average believer/voter Smiley.