Ideological Naivety | The Worst Mind-Virus There Is For A Thinking Adult

This article in part is a criticism of Socialism and Communism, but uses them simply as an example as to why you should not be Ideologically Naive.

Whenever an idea is proposed, particularly an idea generated for political use, it is naïvely assumed that the reality of said idea is identical to the idea itself.

Take socialism for example, people assume that socialism is an idea that is feasible, and that the Communist utopia can be brought in without a single death, pain or suffering.

This, from the many examples we have seen throughout history, is false. The ideas and the methodologies of implementing a socialist regime is well documented, and yet every single time, exploitation, corruption and annihilation come to pass in that order.

When Stalin took over as the dictator of Soviet Russia, the number of deaths he was responsible for was 20-25 million. Mao was responsible for 45 million. In the Gulags, over one million died. These numbers, with exception for the last one, dwarf those of the Holocaust.

There are numerous other regimes you can explore at your own leisure from the comfort of your chair without ever having to experience or die in one, thanks to the internet.

I strongly suggest you look up the death tolls and the actions enacted by these regimes.

So, what is it that makes ‘true communism’ as defenders of the ideology call it, so unattainable. It is the assumption that it is indeed attainable, as all evidence points to the fact it is not.

Beyond this is the fact that many assume ideas are simple, and that ideas on paper always come out exactly as planned. In other words, a lack of consideration is placed on the finer details, and with a topic so wide and potentially destructive as communism, there are nothing but finer details; and instead an absolute focus on the instantiation and erection of ‘True Communism’ is deployed.

The narrow-eyed view that ideologues take is the very reason we are within a so-called ‘culture-war’ in the first place.

And yet, unlike times long past, these people will not research, nor read nor even read reviews of the initial material; communists or socialists won’t read socialist books outside of those given to them by their professor’s reading list, communists won’t read the Manifesto and instead will stand outside of public libraries waving their little flags bought off of resale and mass sale sites such as eBay; no the irony isn’t lost on me.

In the quest for truth, we must first acknowledge what we will accept for truth and it is this limitation, this need to imprint what we are discovering with the brand of our making that taints any possible truth we find.

We must accept and trust our own word and the word of others that we can be critical enough to destroy the truth-monoliths we build, or at the very least shake them to their very core and shake them until their foundations crack rather than building our perspectives of truth around our whims and speculation.

This is called being empirical and sceptical. It is the fact this process exists that we are human, because our ancestors were unable to criticise the world, and until they could, they stayed exactly in the muddy slumps in the rainforests until the day they died.

If you choose not to see a wider perspective, like Cathy Newman, like so many ‘progressives’ then you will do far more damage to yourself than anyone else could do to you. Interrogate the world, be critical and if you are simply acting as a mouthpiece for ideas, stop it.

Think for yourself. Thanks for listening.