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Complexity Liberalism

Feb 25, 2019

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No, Everything is NOT Ideology!

I was told today that everything is ideology.

The problem with such a statement — everything is X — is that if everything is X, then equally nothing is X. It ceases to be a definition precisely because, encompassing everything, it lacks definition.

Marx defined ideology as being the opposite of science. I will accept that definition, even as I will now note that Marxism itself is now…

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I am the author of “Diaphysics” and the novel “Hear the Screams of the Butterfly.” I am a consultant, poet, playwright, novelist, and interdisciplinary scholar.

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