What is ideology?

Commitment to abstractions leads to intolerance of reality

This is a guest post by Mark Shiffman, whose work I have been following on several fronts. It resonates strongly with my last post, the conversation with NS Lyons about “the reality crisis.”

Ideological thinking is impatient with aspects of the world that resist its intellectual schemas. They must be brought into conformity with the guiding vision, or e…