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Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death by UweSchmidt on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:33AM (#11627841)
I didn't mean to conflate things; imagine a benevolent communist leadership, or compassionate national socialism: you would still be under a massive ideologically influence. They might not burn your book, but expect massive resistance to anything that does not conform to the collectivist mainstream. To any human from before WW2 we are all crazy weirdos and live a life of an eccentric dreamer.
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Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death by loup-vaillant on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:27AM (#11628137)
Possibly. But we do have our own conformism too. We do live under our own ideology.

There is no escaping ideology: we humans have values that go beyond our own self anyway. Good luck finding the "right" (whatever that means) ideology, though.

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