FM> I didn't just "dream it up," John.  Ideology as destructive to
 FM> philosophy is not MY original idea.  I learned it from other scholars.
 FM> I happen to agree and see no logical reason not to.
 JB> Ah, Frank, as, I have pointed before in other posts, I do believe
 JB> "ideology -CAN- be destructive"; however, where you and I part is "all
 JB> IDEOLOGY is destructive." You seem to argue, by defintion (key words),
 JB> ideology (because it accepts things as true and therefore not open to
 JB> debate) by its very nature it is dangerous.
   This is simply another instance where I am following the use of the term
and complete understanding of what it commonly means by a great number of
thinkers who I have listed elsewhere and you are rejecting their consensus.
You are, of course, free to do so, just as you are free to assert that Mount
Ranier is really Mount Everest.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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