Mal12345
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When I say "ideological bias" I'm talking about a belief system held usually without the aid of logic or common sense, but only on the basis of psychological material. For example, someone may have lost self-confidence in life and is attempting to regain it via a group membership maintained within a commonly-held system of black-and-white absolutes.
This phenomenon is normally found among our youth who have issues that need to be addressed by a mental health counselor or perhaps even a short stay in a mental institution. Political protesting is a particularly visible form of psychological imbalance.
But I shouldn't go so far as to say that ideological bias is mental illness, that's why I put the thread title in the form of a question. It may be the font of attitudinal/behavioral phenomena, or it may be the end result; either the product or the source, cause or effect.
As our youth mature, assuming they survive the catastrophic mental illness which led to forming bands of like-minded individuals hell-bent on revolution or, which is perhaps worse, the dull sameness of a society that never changes (evolves), they begin to find out that civilization isn't really about black-and-white absolutes; and similarly, that social problems that exist don't have to be solved *today*. And in fact it is only superficial emotional outburst that presents such an idea, not reason or logic.
An ideological absolutist on the inside is just the opposite on the outside. Their external lives tend to be based on impulsiveness and poor decision-making, failure to think in terms of consequences or to think very far ahead at all in terms of their own lives. Stability that exists inside of the person, mentally, in the form of ideas clutched onto like a desperate drowning person, is not to be found on the outside. Assuming this person is not eventually killed or incarcerated for decades (symbolizing the "martyr"), maturity eventually settles in and life truly begins to happen - not the life of an animal/child with a big brain capable of retaining concepts, but the life of an adult man or woman.
This phenomenon is normally found among our youth who have issues that need to be addressed by a mental health counselor or perhaps even a short stay in a mental institution. Political protesting is a particularly visible form of psychological imbalance.
But I shouldn't go so far as to say that ideological bias is mental illness, that's why I put the thread title in the form of a question. It may be the font of attitudinal/behavioral phenomena, or it may be the end result; either the product or the source, cause or effect.
As our youth mature, assuming they survive the catastrophic mental illness which led to forming bands of like-minded individuals hell-bent on revolution or, which is perhaps worse, the dull sameness of a society that never changes (evolves), they begin to find out that civilization isn't really about black-and-white absolutes; and similarly, that social problems that exist don't have to be solved *today*. And in fact it is only superficial emotional outburst that presents such an idea, not reason or logic.
An ideological absolutist on the inside is just the opposite on the outside. Their external lives tend to be based on impulsiveness and poor decision-making, failure to think in terms of consequences or to think very far ahead at all in terms of their own lives. Stability that exists inside of the person, mentally, in the form of ideas clutched onto like a desperate drowning person, is not to be found on the outside. Assuming this person is not eventually killed or incarcerated for decades (symbolizing the "martyr"), maturity eventually settles in and life truly begins to happen - not the life of an animal/child with a big brain capable of retaining concepts, but the life of an adult man or woman.