“Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.” KnowsWayHas BeensFactsSpaceInternetIntellectualPropertyIdeologyProgressiveInnovativeIntellectual Property Author:Lawrence Lessig
“For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.” ReasonFactsPoliticalCultureRepublicanAspectIdeologyRadicalThirstDominationDisturbingPolitical CultureThirst For Power Author:Al Gore
“I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.” MenFactsHelpingFightingClassMiddleHe ManTradeUnionsIncomeIdeologyDevelopingPostsOfficialsAppropriateMiddle ClassLabourBourgeoisBourgeoisieWorking ManTrade Unions Author:George Orwell
“Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.” ThinkingFactsShowsRealityLightMightNamesIndividualSocialVirtueElementsConceptsVictimBlockIdeologyLimitationAnalysisNormSociologyApprehensionProclaimingFaithless Book:One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society Source: One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society
“The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.” MindSelfFactsPlanetsCallingIdeologyWanderDesertCompassPsychedelicPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.” ThinkingHas BeensFactsLosesAnswersAttitudeAtheismSubjectsParticularLosingExperienceConservativePositive AtheismDeterminedObservationIdeologyInterpretationIdeologicalIdeologues Author:James Burnham