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| Dalrymple: The Persistence of Ideology |
| 2009-02-09 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The continuance of ideology more than anything else points to social Darwinism on one extreme and Hegelianism on the other extreme. That is, in the former example, the superior system survives and the inferior system fails and dies out. In the latter, that the two systems combine to produce a hybrid system with the best elements of both. Criticisms of both exist as well. Archaic and bad ides, say Nazism, still exist in some form, so have not utterly died out, disputes a natural selection of ideas; as well as bad ideas that emerge in every generation, without any direct links to the past. But Hegelianism can be criticized as well, because often it is not the best of ideas, but the worst of ideas, that are blended together over time. This means that in the long run, ideology must be destructive enough to wipe out its competitors, which has led us to the state we find ourselves in today. Civilization vs. Barbarism. The two can no longer coexist--one of them must die out, or be reduced so much that its end is inevitable. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-02-09 15:09 |