Ideologies are sets of beliefs and ideas determining closely your thinking, judgment, behavior, and social interaction throughout life. Ideologies may be religious, social, political, educational, spiritual, scientific, and so on. And if it ends in 'ism, ' it is an ideology for certain, as capitalism and communism for example. However, all religions and schools of thought are ideologies, and most of them do not end in 'ism.' Since when you have enclosed sets of beliefs meant to remain highly consistent among themselves and highly exclusive, keeping you within, while criticizing and attacking the rest, then these are ideologies. Cults have their own ideologies at their base, along with entire regimes and political parties, scientific organizations, social hierarchies including hierarchic Brotherhoods, and so on.
The major difference between ideological thinking and normal, natural thinking is that ideologies restrain your cognition to specific, artificial, predetermined sets of beliefs, understandings, and experiences in the world, for various reasons. And this is what gives ideologies their specific, artificial, fictitious, enforced structure, as opposed to normal reasoning, which remains genuine, natural, unique, and therefore unrestricted. Since this is the difference between freedom and servitude, between the accurate and the fictitious, and between genuine fulfillment and hierarchic duties. And many times, ideologies state upfront that they are based on beliefs and consensuses, that you have to serve someone or something in that ideology, that you have to follow specific rules and beliefs, or that you have to state specific oaths and attend specific rituals, ceremonies, and so on. And you always do it, for someone remarkable, or for your own good, or for the good of your own kind, or even for the good of the entire world, but you have to do it exactly as stated in the ideology. And sometimes it is good, and sometimes dreadful, while the other ideologies are always dreadful, but not yours. And it always upsets you when anyone challenges your ideology or only points at it in any manner, which is another detail defining ideologies consistently. And since ideologies constrain you in an artificial, fictitious manner, you might end up harming the world too, and this is why you must learn everything about ideologies before you end up under their control.
Throughout this book, we study ideologies in all details and from all perspectives, in order to help you identify and understand them, and to be able to avoid them and defend yourself and your family in all circumstances. Because if thoughts can harm you in any manner, then ideologies certainly can, since they may bring the world to chaos, and even take it back to the Dark Ages.
