What Is The Purpose Of Having Ideologies?

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Ideologies/belief systems are costly things to mantain. They require you to lie about reality, engage in discussions, ignore things, take inappropriate action, etc, etc to be mantaneid. What's the benefit here? Why do we do this? For us to accept all this costs there must be some (big) benefit to mantaining them, at least a perceived or ilusory one. Any perspective on the matter is appreciated.

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2 minutes ago, Lorenzo Engel said:

Ideologies/belief systems are costly things to mantain. They require you to lie about reality, engage in discussions, ignore things, take inappropriate action, etc, etc to be mantaneid. What's the benefit here? Why do we do this? For us to accept all this costs there must be some (big) benefit to mantaining them, at least a perceived or ilusory one. Any perspective on the matter is appreciated.

No choice.  Nobody knows they are asleep until there is a glimpse of awakening, and even where there are moments of freedom, nobody knows what it is, and it can't be sustained because the way social life is structured ensures the ideology sticks.

Plus this spirituality thing is an ideology too. An ideology about getting rid of ideologies. Sneaky!