>I don’t usually recommend movies, but I really got a lot out “The perverts guide to ideology“

>Essentially it’s a well presented theory that any particular ideology is a sum of components that can be combined to create a complete undeniable way of living. Nationalism, ethnicity, religion, atheism, capitalism, socialism (and many others) are all components that can be combined in different proportions to create a complete ideology. Like a cooking recipe. The interesting thought is that no matter how one combines the variables, they converge to the same point. Which is, you must think and behave like we do, or you will be cast out. The filmmaker presents societies as swinging between the extremes of pure capitalism to pure communism, with the wealthy always maintaining an advantage. Interesting stuff.

That reminded me of Jonathan Rees' a la carte menu of features or properties of "object oriented programming" ideology (or objectology):

http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html

"Because OO is a moving target, OO zealots will choose some subset of this menu by whim and then use it to try to convince you that you are a loser."

I'd love for Slavoj Žižek to do "The Perverts Guide to Objectology”!