Ideas and Ideologies

Now these two terms - Ideas and ideologies - are totally different, with quite a few similarities, but what I'm interested in is the massive amounts of destruction each can do. In fact, we can form an equation to judge an idea or - a set of ideas based on a singular goal - an ideology's success, a yield factor. How much destruction does it do over how much good it does. But, see that number would be worth nothing without answering a more general question: what are its/their goals?

Keeping our prejudices aside, it is obvious that there are many ideologies, each bubbling up quite a few ideas. As for definitions, I believe both terms are better described than defined. An idea is a proposal - whether voiced or left insulated - to further a goal, be it to preserve or change. As for an ideology, it is nothing more than a set of these ideas for - as I just said - to further a single goal. And the beauty and ugliness of these things is not very discreet, but their not limited by anything. They can be secular or religious. They can be conservative or liberal. Hell, they aren't ever limited by any sort of control, not even establishment-run control. In fact, they usually rise for the darkest and strongest of these control patterns. Comparing pluralist and corporatist interest groups results in the lack or not a lack of control as the former produces "spontaneous" groups; however, these ideas and ideologies do not need organization or huge flocks of followers. They are spontaneous BECAUSE men (as in ALL men - woMEN, children and all) think. No one, not even the Omnipotent, can destroy that.

But, just like their spontaneous conceptions, ideas and ideologies also have all sorts of goals. In other words, the spontaneity transcends just the birth, but is sought out in an end game, at its death. But, for all, their is always a good intent. With this, we will examine the not-so-good results and, before that, the reasons for it.

Keeping in mind the one property of all ideologies, (lets assume hear on out that ideas are encapsulated by ideologies) their spontaneity, it does not take a great number of people to create an ideology. In matters religious, we can look at Abraham, Christ, Muhammad and Valmicki and realize that most of these beings were considered - pardon me for the potentially offensive language - "kooks" and so very few people believed them. And so we arrive at the second truth of all ideologies: their potency is garnered only long after they actually laid out the plan, which is usually in writing. These is true in secular ideologies, also. Karl Marx's "Communism" is definitely not the same Communism that is thought of by today's world.

And so there is a gap that is drawn between the theory and the practice; however, that is not to say that the theory's practice is the same as the way it had been practiced. The key behind this gap is the time that spans between conception and execution. Again, this goes back to the idea of spontaneousness and good initial  intent. Had Christ wanted the Crusades or - for that matter - the Religious Wars, such as the Thirty Years War? Had Muhammad wanted the rise of Jihad and the vast Muslim empires in the East? or Had Valmicki thought of the effects of his writing to incorporate a massacre in Modi's Gujurat?

Moreover, the reason so many ideologies are "misuse" is because when the ideologies are written to provide for legacy, these philosophers place so much attention on persuasion that the final goal, the endgame is lost. Finally, the third truth behind ideologies: they truly are bred for the Mother of Human Defects, misunderstanding.