A Quick Note on Ideology

When we start talking about radical solutions to human problems, we usually start talking about ideology - whether we are searching for a better alternative or building a new system ourselves - because we recognize it to be that skeletal frame upon which everything human is built. But so far we seem to have only a somewhat static conception of it, which I am sure is changing in many places as I speak, seeing as how many everywhere are beginning to talk about radical changes under a climate of desperation.

But maybe a quick note on ideology (plenty more will come later on this subject).  Ideology is often assembled by thinkers using a variety of values and logical principles. It is assembled in time, in accordance with the available intellectual tools and perceptions at the time. And generally in time, there are several thinkers that have reached several somewhat different conclusions within the same historical/intellectual climate and so their varying ideologies are weighed out in time, with subsequent thinkers either adopting a stronger ideology wholesale or borrowing parts to make their own to fashion their own ideologies. 

Let's keep in mind the fact that ideologies are constructed in time, and so the structure and thrust of the ideology will most likely resemble the constitution of not only the individual but the social environment at the time and so in this way, even clearly articulated and firmly constructed ideologies can change over time to reflect the changing constitutions of those using the ideologies to inform their actions. And then simultaneously other ideologies or even institutions are built over these skeletal structures by those who see different angles and wish to fill in for more practical problems, almost like muscles and organs and skin form over bone. 

So if we want to build better ideology, we should understand that they are organic, though perhaps more rigid than say an administrative technique, since they are more fundamental and abstract, but nevertheless, they can change over time. Societies built on top of them change over time, and so thinkers gaze back and re-examine the ideological skeleton, and in doing so, stand to potentially change the constitution of their future societies if they so decide to alter the ideology, or at least extract the parts of it they like to form something else. 

But then the need to build ideology presupposes the acknowledgement that we ultimately need ideology, which is a good metacognitive, epistemological, and even metaphysical question (I would argue we do). Plenty of interesting avenues of thought can proceed from there in time.