Personal Note I

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Why I am anti-ideological |
Thursday – October 2, 2025

I am anti-ideological for a variety of reasons and I believe that my anti-ideological theme can be noticed in most of my posts on this page, and this is also why I only consider conservatism as an ideology, or really anti-ideology, to be worthy of respect. I do not identify as conservative, for a variety of reasons that I intend to cover in this series at another time. The main reasons why I am anti-ideological is because I believe in living in reality, and by that I simply mean that ideologies do not deal with reality: they deal with a conjured up ideological reality that treats people as good or bad, where the "good" people are on "our" side and the "bad" people are on the "other" side. Indeed, the way I view ideology is a little bit like the story of the collective, or the story/myth that people within the collective tell each other to justify the objectification of themselves and of others: indeed it may even be the case that ideology is a necessary organizing principle for any collective, it speaks to man in a way that asserts the salience of the collective effort before anything else.

    Does this mean that I view modern political ideologies such as socialism, liberalism, etc as myths of the collective subconsciousness? Yes, actually you may say that both socialism and liberalism in particular ties into the core tenants of the humanist axiom: they further develop different strains of thought that all converge around the same ideas, they both derived from the humanist axiom if you will. Of course, small groups of people, tribes etc, don't need liberalism or socialism to work as a myth or story that unifies people: small tribes have other forms of ideologies or proto-ideologies if you will, often in the form of proto-regions and other stuff like that, and indeed folklore is really a remnant left from a time when people did not rely on liberalism and large scale political mobilization to form society. Do remember that ideologies and mass politics are fairly recent developments and I'm sure that most men that lived in the not so distant past would've found modern politics and its development to be remarkable and a bad thing most likely, something that seemingly has caused more distress and more harm than anything good. Survival used to be key to life or key to being able to live, that seems obvious but I do sense that most modern men don't actually appreciate this properly, and that's a problem for them. See, with this thin layer that most of us refer to as "civilization" we far too often and far too much get swept up into the architecture, the inner workings, and the infrastructure of social life in a world that seems almost divorced from the true hardships of the material domain, and this is why I believe that ideology is a dangerous thing: because ideology requires men to not live in reality, to be really disconnected from the hardships of the material domain, in a way that then enables them to get distracted by the ideological future and the ideological goals, and these form around the social or anthropological limits that seemingly occur naturally in any given society where there are large amounts of desperate people, i.e. class and social strata.

    See, to be ideological is to be the political object: it is to act for the benefit of the collective. Again notice that it's often rather hard for men to simply hate other men, but that it's far easier for men to hate the political object: this is due to what ideology does to men. While it may be hard for most men to imagine killing other men, this seems easy for most men to do if we go by history: after all men have seemingly not done anything else for most of human history than to kill each other with firm diligence and righteous motivation. Well, this is the point of ideology: to mobilize you and more importantly your feelings against the world, or the circumstances of the material domain.

    Well, I refuse to be a political object and I refuse to sacrifice myself for the benefit of the material order: this is why I am staunchly anti-ideological; I refuse to transform into the beast.

Reginald Drax – October 2, 2025.