This is my first diary and I did not want to write a candidate hit diary or a love fest. So I decided to write something that could perhaps inspire intellectual thought and meaningful discourse.
So here we go...
Ideology has a rich and troubled past. The word first emerged during the French Revolution as idéologie, introduced by A.-L.-C. Destutt de Tracy, which he coined his science of ideas.
The science of ideas was a science with a mission; it aimed at serving men, even saving them, by ridding their minds of prejudice and preparing them for the sovereignty of reason (Cranston)
The initial question I will attempt to answer is how the original definition and the good will behind ideology has become corrupted and perverted over time. Secondly, what are the the characteristics of a modern ideologue. And how can the ideologue reconcile its set of ideas (be they narrow or broad) and its collective behavior to perfecting the greater good with natural antagonists.
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