Nah. People really have the ability to NOT have an ideology. Ideologues can't see this because they see ideology everywhere. Their model of how people make decisions requires them to have an ideology. So, non-ideology is ideology to them. This drives them to make erroneous conclusions, such as concluding that someone saying that they would do what works best for Americans to mean some sort of ideological commitment to prize Americans over everybody else, when it just means paying attention to what works and what doesn't work, doing more of what works and less of what doesn't.
Nah. People really have the ability to NOT have an ideology. Ideologues can't see this because they see ideology everywhere. Their model of how people make decisions requires them to have an ideology. So, non-ideology is ideology to them. This drives them to make erroneous conclusions, such as concluding that someone saying that they would do what works best for Americans to mean some sort of ideological commitment to prize Americans over everybody else, when it just means paying attention to what works and what doesn't work, doing more of what works and less of what doesn't.
Empirical trial and error is not an ideology.
Pragmatism: “a pragmatic attitude or policy: ideology had been tempered with pragmatism.”
(Philosophy) “an approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application.” (source: Oxford Dictionary)
Thanks for reminding me about what I liked about Shikha's work.