Quotation of the day
"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers
human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of
morality while making it easier to part with them. As the
repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables
people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position
and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from
themselves. [...] It is a veil behind which human beings can hide
their own fallen existence, their trivialization, and their
adaptation to the status quo. It is an excuse that everyone can
use... The primary excusatory function of ideology ... is to
provide people, both as victims and pillars of the
post-totalitarian system, with the illusion that the system is in
harmony with the human order and the order of the universe.."
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
