“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.”

- Oswald Spengler

'Ideology functions most effectively as a complex of unquestioned background assumptions. Ideologues often don’t want their ideology labeled because they want it to be seen as, e.g. basic humanity and decency, not arguable propositions.'