On Ideology: Narrative
18th November 2020
Severian continues his analysis.
The surest sign you’re dealing with an ideology is that it provides a narrative for privatizing benefits while socializing costs. And the point of this narrative is to, in effect, freeze time. The narrative explains why things must be as they are now, and it explains why things must be the way they’ll be in the future, but when you examine it, the narrative provides no explanation whatsoever for how any action in the now advances, even for one second, the inevitable future.