So ideas can shape our environments and the way we interact
with one another. Ideas seem to gain currency with not only logical
consistency, but harmonization with the surrounding reality in accordance with
the collective mental structures of those that support the idea, and this all
when you have bottom-up generation. When power centralizes around a certain
body of ideas, institutions form under it and it seems that a state arises
along with law and security to maintain a logically consistent system.
This state of affairs progresses to a top-down
administration of ideological realities, where the ideology is no longer
necessarily prized on its consistency or harmonization, but because it is the
dominant discourse and the “main game in town” so to speak.
The ideology, and the power structure that forms around it,
becomes progressively calcified. Power, with more to lose, takes more extreme
measures to protect its gains. Those who have more want more, those who have
less get less. And so social problems increase and force is increased to
account for that.
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