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ideology

Entries tagged with ideology - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

6 concepts

Cultural Influence

Capitalist Realism 

The pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable system - not because it's the best, but because alternatives have become unthinkable.

Cultural Influence

Cultural Hegemony 

When the dominant group's ideas become everyone's 'common sense' - accepted as natural rather than constructed.

Cultural Influence

False Consciousness 

Supporting systems that work against your own interests because the culture has made them feel natural and inevitable.

Political Theory

Left and Right 

The two broad families of political belief, born from where people sat in 1789 - and still tracking, underneath, your attitude to equality and hierarchy.

Political Theory

Neoliberalism 

The political project that made free-market competition the default logic of everything, from public services to how we see ourselves.

Political Theory

Populism 

A way of doing politics that pits 'the pure people' against 'a corrupt elite' - and claims to be the one true voice of the people.