[MD] Proud to be a Brit / Pommie

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ham]
How can anyone say that Ideology is either good or bad without 
identifying or defining it?

[Arlo]
The problem with "ideology" is that it does the same thing to 
"thought" that religion does to spirituality. First it presents the 
illusion that this one "ideology" has captured the cosmos so 
accurately that all others can be summarily dismissed. Second, it 
begins to posit that those other "ideologies" are not only "wrong", 
but they are "dangerous", evil, and misguided (witness your own 
ongoing diatribes against "nihilism" or the constant bemoaning of 
that evil "Marxism" and the world-ending, civilization-destroying, 
humanity-catastrophic ends that come from those "ologies"... which 
happily your "ology" will save us all from).

[Ham]
Such blanket labeling of methods and systems out of context as "good" 
or "bad" seems simplistic to me.

[Arlo]
And yet you do it all the time...