Leid Stories - 08/05/13

Driven to Abstraction: The Increasing Uselessness of Ideology Most people fervently believe in something or other that informs their view of the world and how, or if, they fit in it. This is especially true about politics; people tend to have reasonably well-defined ideas about government, political parties, their roles and rights as citizens, etc. And then there are ideologs—people and organizations so utterly obsessed with proving and/or safeguarding the validity of their beliefs that they cannot, and therefore do not, engage in actually applying them. Why? Mostly because they think no one else believes exactly as they do. Such is too often the case, says Leid Stories, with the so-called “left.”  Driven to abstraction about the correctness or purity of their ideology, they’ve become inert at a time that action is needed and, increasingly, irrelevant to real-life struggles.