nivek
As Above So Below
In recent times, perhaps in the past as well, political ideologies have been offering many a supposed route to 'real' happiness, this is not the purpose...Political ideologies, no matter their roots, rely on for their drive and energy the concept of enemies, external or internal and these ideologies often promise to spare their followers the challenge of confrontation with that supposed enemy...
Political ideologies can even go as far as promote anti-government or anti-religion to achieve its agenda, the followers calling themselves free thinkers or even victims, suffering at the hands of the government or religion their ideology targets...Free thinkers do not start off as explicitly anti-religious or anti anything but once an ideology creeps in, without being aware, they are no longer free in their thinking...
Logic and Reason may claim authority of science, Faith and Hope may claim authority of religion, what lays claim to politics?...Is political ideology nothing more than a conspiracy driven train, that uses the situations of people to make manifest its agenda or idea?...If so then what of the many unexamined assumptions that are sometimes called optimism?...
Political ideologies can even go as far as promote anti-government or anti-religion to achieve its agenda, the followers calling themselves free thinkers or even victims, suffering at the hands of the government or religion their ideology targets...Free thinkers do not start off as explicitly anti-religious or anti anything but once an ideology creeps in, without being aware, they are no longer free in their thinking...
Logic and Reason may claim authority of science, Faith and Hope may claim authority of religion, what lays claim to politics?...Is political ideology nothing more than a conspiracy driven train, that uses the situations of people to make manifest its agenda or idea?...If so then what of the many unexamined assumptions that are sometimes called optimism?...