January 6, 2012
Khalil Gibran, in one of his works entitled—The Prophet, said :
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself
They come through you, but they are not from you
And though they are with you yet
They belong not to you
You may give them your love
Not you thoughts
For they have their own thoughts…
Ideology is a system of belief serving a social group. It is quite interesting to note in here that how a given ideology is interconnected with its groups of people, in which people justify the correctness, validity and reliability of any given idea with the group of people who claim that such given idea belongs to us and the like. This is one of the interesting dramas in this world and there are various types of communities and societies that are formed and work under leader and follower style of life.
What if any given idea works and operates the way differing from the claimed communities or societies that are formed under it, or whatever, is there any other way such deviance or deviants could be justified? People say, the chief error relating to the application of the ideology might be called “the totalist illusion”. It consist of thinking that the entire context of social though is socially determined in the sensed mentioned of a dependence on relation to the groups.
It is possible to connect certain idea to certain group, but it impossible to wholly claim that a given idea operates under certain form and shape since idea is an invisible reality which could progress or changes thru the passage of time as result of its natural character and processes of life. For example, art and science are very interesting aspects of our life in which most ideas are categorized under these broad categories. Science is a technical means towards satisfying growing desires and needs for stable life, characterized by universalism since it is associated with human reason and material and social needs, whereas art is a mode of expression translating activities of human community or nation, national since it as links with the soul of a given nation, its heritage, history and conditions of life.
Both have their own methodology and way of operating due to their nature since they have different character and nature. The use of telephone cannot be connected to certain group of people since that given scientist is from certain nation, but the nature and needs belong to a universal reality since connection is what everyone needs as human beings. Where as a paint of certain person who belongs to certain nation reflects certain heritage of a given nation belongs to certain types of people. Bearing this in mind, there are many systems of belief formulated in this world and they change in character and shape as the time goes by due to many reasons. As islands are created out of certain volcanic activity, any given system that lives under certain crisis either changes or vanishes after that given circumstances too.
As such theatrical events of life is going on, there are various groups and categories of people who function within and outside a given circle of community or society or nation. These are seven types or categories of people who live in nay nation or community, but they have different kinds or types of ideology or may be none, but they live in one or the other types or categories of people in every land and in this world too.
The first ones are the so called, leaders, who could be elected or appointed, and they have their own inner circlers and hey are the prime architects of their group or community. They devise strategies, plans and they make everything in front and behind and design the looks of the people and community they lead and guide. The are the most inner circle since they are the planners, and decision makers of the nation or community they belong or they want to create.
The second ones are the implementers and supporters of such leaders. There are are quite larger in number and size of the former ones; the primal function of such people is to follow and promote the agendas o the so called leaders mentioned on te above. Obedience is the link that integrates the former and such ones and they work together to implement the goals set by the so called the leaders.
The third ones are those types of people who support the first and the second types of people with out rational and reasonable arguments. They just follow then since they obtain certain advantage and personal benefits. They do no care what they think or plan behind, but they support them blindly since they are beneficiary from tat given system or whatever. They do not have enough capacity to understand their claims.
The fourth ones are the indifferent ones in which they are not sure where they are going; they do not support what the former groups of people say, but the try to be fair, neutral, and try to balance things in their own mindset and thinking. They think that wisdom is the best method and approach in life in which they try to be wise in their own mindset; in reality, they are cowardice and they do not have a stand since they do not have their own perspective and stand in life. They claim they are positive, but not.
The fifth ones are those who totally oppose what the first and second types of people claim and they are called opposition parties or in cases as ,“enemy”… whatever due to the fact they oppose and they have reason, rational, and they justify that the first and the second types of people are wrong in their own method and approaches of life. They have their own mechanism and way of seeing things in away different from the first and second types of people. They have their own arguments, proofs and rational to justify that such people are wrong and they need advise and help. These people are very important elements and ingredients of society since they have rationale.
The sixth types of people are followers and advocators of the fifth types of people in which they implement, support and participate in the plans and visions of the fourth types of people. They are active participants of their drama since they think same way as they do and they cooperate in their plans and dramas too.
The seventh types of people are those who follow the fifth and sixth types of people since they meet their personal advantage or their personal advantages are put to danger due to the first and second types of peoples.
Modern ideological theory draws a distinction between two major kinds of approaches, researches in the field states. These are the theory of interest and the theory of tension. According to the theory of interests, this is related to psychological phenomena as the perception of advantage and to social situation, in which theory is mask and a weapon in here. According to the theory of tension, it is mostly related and connected to psychic pole [collective state of anxiety] with a social one in which it is considered that theory is means of avoiding anxiety. In both aspects, theory serves as a bridge connecting past and future by creating its own island and seeking its own dwellers too.
