#Ideology

[naowyd]

There it is! Finally, someone said it!!! To add on, I find this motif so awestrucking every. single. time!!!!

Especially with how timely/synchronistic this concept is to our current historical exploration: where we can both see/experience patriarchy & sovereignty and act/live in their perpetual destruction, which btw is perfectly encapsulated by "there is nothing more undoing as a daughter." Due to the sheer fact that we expect daughters/women to be the reflection or cultural inspirations of freedom, power, & CREATION to then ALSO force the chains of expectations, constraints, & constant implantations to "our beautiful, loving, and absolutely caring daughters" as it traumatizes and willingly weighs them down.

This realization doesn't hit many until they can finally understand themselves & daughters/women as people, friends, & beings with their own right. That's when the beautiful FUCK YOU, burn, paint, and destroy the entire empire, comes into play because you are finally enraged at realization of or being the perfectly torted daughter/woman/child: the reflection of placing humanities worst personal/societal fears on to them yet they still maintin durable/strong enough to represent our greatest strengths! The duality, the mere power of their existence... daughters/children will always be your undoing, so you better learn to make it right ;)

i loooooove when i see videos where silco says 'is there anything so undoing as a daughter' and then its all the parallels. jinx and silco. vander and vi. mel and ambessa. caitlyn and cassandra. like yeah bro.... arcane really is about how undoing daughters are. fuck. is there anything so undoing as a daughter bro....

[thirdity]

Liberated from the contents of communication, the addressee of the messages of the mass media receives only a global ideological lesson, the call to narcotic passiveness. When the mass media triumph, the human being dies.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality

[eclecticwordblender]

a popular meme page on instagram posted a happy international men's day post and the comments were filled with "waiting for all the angry feminists" "comments from toxic women" "women will want half of this too" "single moms in the comments about to go feral" etc. except not one woman commented anything like that. there were a few "who cares" comments and they were all by males 😭😭😭.

tells you a lot really.

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[seladorie]

I agree with you. But I think it's possible to hold this ideological stance while feeling the petty human emotions that come in these trying times. Our feelings do not have to dictate our ideology.

I think people are having these reactions to force themselves to be distant from the amount of human suffering we're about to see as a self defense mechanism.

I think everyone deserves to live, to have food, shelter, security, and happiness. I don't want anyone to die. That said, I'm not going to let myself shed any tears over Trump voters, third party voters, and willful nonvoters. There's too many other people that deserve my empathy and compassion first. I voted for their rights just as I did for everyone, and I will continue to do so. I might even take in some schadenfreude because I'm human and I'm petty.

Saying that this is the same as labeling a group of people as people who deserve to die feels like a conflation, and also very unfair to the complexity of the emotions people are going through right now.

This is so funny now im seeing people talking abt "imperfect allies" and how we can't afford recriminations and "i told you so"s and how we need to really come together and build community now.

It's too little too late. Oh NOW we want to talk abt imperfect allies, when earlier you called me a zionist cunt who deserves to die for DARING to suggest that kamala would be a better president for marginalized people in this country? NOW we need to look past differences and embrace our shared humanity?

No. You just need my labor again, you just need black and jewish and women and trans labor to do all the hard work of building a backbone of aid and solidarity again, because you're feeling the loneliness and vulnerability of a fractured, losing movement.

[your-average-teenage-mess]

I actually have so much more respect for people who can't bring themselves to believe anything than I do for people who get so deeply entrenched in ideologies that they might take years or even their whole lives to ever come to reevaluate their values. Even though they, on average, tend to bring less effective results.

Like, evolution does what is affective, not what is objectively correct, since, like, the "objective" meaning of the world is that our perception cannot accurately model anything and therefore nothing we know is ever true and we just gotta commit to the bit and try to reduce that annoying bug of nature called "human suffering" by as much as possible, because our sense of pain is what our entire idea of "bad" is based on, but also it doesn't "objectively" matter because nothing ever does. But thinking in terms this abstract all the time is just... Kinda ineffective, and there is a sense of numb bliss in it that can be dangerously addictive if our collective understanding of morality has screwed you over in one way or another. And my respect for the people who get addicted to nihilism over people who get addicted to ideology is probably purely pavlovian, but like... One of them IS more closely correlated with intellectualism than the other, and misguided ideology tends to involve... Much more DIRECT denial of harm than simply going "I don't know".

[in-the-depths-of-solitude]

[eretzyisrael]

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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[themindmovement]

“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.”

— Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies

[marvelstars]

Anakin Skywalker, the Republic and Politics

Shmi cut me off. “The Republic doesn’t exist out here, ” she said sharply. “We must survive on our own.”

I have placed all my faith in the Republic. Its laws are formalized, enforced throughout the galaxies. Yet there are places, whole worlds, where they are ignored.

Am I placing too much faith in the Senate? It is all I have. But is depending on it to right the wrongs of the Naboo asking too much?

Padmé Amidala | Episode I Journal: Queen Amidala

It´s quite simple really why would a former slave trust the Republic to enforce their laws if they failed so epically at enforcing their "no slavery allowed" law on Tatooine and other planets and not only that but part of their politicians openly practice it? and as a Jedi he wasn´t asked to help free slaves on Tatooine as a guardian of peace and justice but he was made to save the heir of the main slaver in his home planet.

No wonder Anakin was of the mind that Republic citizens need to be given the tools to take care of their own needs, see security during the clone wars, because the alternative, the republic doing something about it, was next to zero.

He became authoritarian because of Palpatine but even as Vader if he didn´t trust a Grand admiral he didn´t just let them know that but it was kind of Vader´s job to keep them in line or be done with them which the Emperor allowed, we can´t allow an admiral become too powerful to become a menace for the Emperor, the only untouchable one was Tarkin and still I am pretty sure the main reason Vader was on Death Star I was to make sure Tarkin didn´t got any ideas about using the weapon agaisnt Palpatine to take over the Empire with the power of the Death Star. As Vader he believed he could bring order to the galaxy with the power of the Empire but also wanted a Senate to represent the system, Vader didn´t agree on the use of the death star or the dissapareance of the Senate.

Anakin Skywalker at heart wasn´t left or right, he certainly hold ideals "The biggest problem in the galaxy is that no one helps each other" and "Lest free all the slaves" but I don´t think he believed politicians from either ideology truly represented those ideals and star wars is pretty vague about the ideology of the politicians during Republic time, in fact neither did Obi-Wan and that´s quite interesting given they expend a lot of time around politicians and using diplomacy, they didn´t get those ideas from ignorance, they got those ideas from interacting with politicians and most often than not, they saw Politicians used those ideals to get power and didn´t care for much else besides that.

Anakin looks to me like an idealist - realist who later became a pragmatic who supported an authoritation regime, his heart was idealist but his mind told him the galaxy moved to the sound of realpolitik and that´s what he practiced as General in the clone wars and later as Darth Vader.

He loved and trusted Padme because he knew with every fibre of his being that she was honest and truly cared and that´s the example he wanted Ahsoka to learn from, that´s why he send Ahsoka to learn politics from Padme, not from Palpatine but he trusted and listened to Palpatine because he appealed to his more pragmatic side.

Anakin would have loved to think the galaxy worked as Padme wanted it to work but his mind and his past told him that in practice power was what truly moved the galaxy highest espheres just as it worked when he was a kid. His actions in the clone wars reflect that, he served all his orders but also made an extra effort to help those who were not the priority of anybody in a position of power, be it Plo Koon and his men, the clones, Saw Guerrera, Neutral planets in the war, citizens with no bone to pick with either side, etc.

TBH while he probably didn´t agree with Satine on her peaceful stance towards the war, he didn´t criticize her for seeking a peaceful end to the war as Obi-Wan did, in fact he tried to talk with her on her terms, telling her they were at her service as guardians not soldiers even if she and he knew what he really meant, Anakin certainly approved of her distrust towards the Republic and didn´t argue with her about the Jedi becoming soldiers because that was exactly what they had become, Anakin doesn´t argue with reality, he just did´t think that was permanent and that they could get back to what they were once the war was done. He also agreed with Satine wish to keep her people out of the war "She is a remarkable woman" Anakin told Obi-Wan.

His problem was that he didn´t got to voice those oppinions or discuss them in a serious way with Padme or Obi-Wan because he knew they probably woulnd not agree with him and promptly expect him to follow their lead, he only did so with Palpatine because he apparently listened to him or at least let him express himself Anakin truly wanted to agree with the people he loved most in the galaxy but he didn´t ,not on this matter.

I believe fandom and sometimes the clone wars and new material doesn´t truly explore Anakin´s political ideas in part because Lucas made the mistake of reducing them to a tease between Anakin and Padme on their firt date to give more chance to the tragic part of his story but originally (OT)Vader fell to the darkside because of his politics and his relationship to the Emperor, the story is still there and it´s a real shame fandom just makes fun of them when they add so much to the story, Anakin brings the realism into the fairlytale in many ways, including the political one.

[anarchistfrogposting]

The point is not moral absolution or ideological purity, it’s building a better world.

[odiabonecessario]

Even though I don't fully agree with blackpill, I still see its merit and points — just like radical feminism at its essence. Having said that, treating a group of people like they're not human beings should ever be something worth considering

[philosophybits]

The magnetic power exerted by patently threadbare ideologies is to be explained, beyond psychology, by the objectively determined decay of logical evidence as such. Things have come to a pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying.

Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 71

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority." -- Booker T. Washington

[ahb-writes]

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Ideology and Propaganda)

Ideology and Propaganda Worldbuilding Questions:

What are the dominant or most popular ideologies in this world, and why?

What has led to the most popular ideologies having the hold they do over this world’s inhabitants?

Who is revered or celebrated for the ideology they founded?

Who is most skeptical about reigning ideologies, and why?

Where are there safe spaces or alternative forums for honest, free discussion, free of institutional bias or repercussions?

Where are the regions where specific ideologies or propaganda campaigns are strongest?

When have there been ideological shifts in this world’s history, and what caused them (e.g., a change of leader, a new activist figure)?

When has there been the most ideological conformity, versus the most division and opposition?

Why have ideologies or propaganda been created and disseminated? What is their purpose?

Why do specific ideologies or propaganda techniques resonate with or work for inhabitants of this world? What are their desires/fears?

❯ ❯ ❯ Read other writing masterposts in this series: Worldbuilding Questions for Deeper Settings