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Ideology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a set of implicit and explicit positions or choices, which predetermine what we tend to emphasize or to ignore.

Ideology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always self-referential, that is, it always defines itself through some distance towards an other dismissed and denounced as ideological'.

Ideology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an attempted concealment of the traumatic fact that social harmony is in all times an inherent impossibility. Thus, figures like the jew are readily made directly responsible for the theft of a social harmony that never did, nor could ever exist.

Ideology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an essential component of reality, and thus, is examined not in order to see things as they 'really are', but rather to see how precisely a given reality itself cannot reproduce itself without this so-called ideological mystification.

Ideology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at its most basic, captured in the notion underlying marx's phrase 'they do not know it, but they are doing it'. It is a basic, constitutive naivete... a naive consciousness.

Ideology (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in some ways, more real than we are such that the emotions I perform through false persona are actually more authentic and truthful than what I really feel in myself.

Ideology's (n.) central ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠issue is one of proximity. That is, the (ideological) trick is to keep the object at a certain distance in order to sustain the satisfaction derived from the fantasy 'if only I had x I could fulfill my dream'. Ideology thus regulates this fantasmatic distance in order to, as it were, avoid the real in the impossible: i.e. The traumatic aspects involved in any real (impossible) change.

Ideology (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠under a cynical banner, 'they know very well what they are doing, but they are doing it'.