Ideology should more properly be called idiocy: we harbour the suspicion that the "deep beliefs" and "moral passions" associated with Ideologies tend to make people behave like lunatics (or like badly-wired robots) and that strong doses of skepticism and down-to-earth pragmatism appear to be the only factors that have ever produced any relative sanity or relative peace anywhere. We agree that passionate ideology and "deep" belief (i.e. deliberate blindness) indeed makes for political success and has created history as we kn
Ideology should more properly be called idiocy: we harbour the suspicion that the "deep beliefs" and "moral passions" associated with Ideologies tend to make people behave like lunatics (or like badly-wired robots) and that strong doses of skepticism and down-to-earth pragmatism appear to be the only factors that have ever produced any relative sanity or relative peace anywhere. We agree that passionate ideology and "deep" belief (i.e. deliberate blindness) indeed makes for political success and has created history as we kn