3 Ideology

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Every complex decision begins by answering the most fundamental question, one on which all subsequent answers depend. The fundamental question has a special word assigned to it, liberty: do individuals make their own decisions or are they told what to do? Your ideology derives from how you answer this question because almost all other parts of governance, society, commerce, economy & knowledge depend on it.<br /><br />Governance divides between democracy, where everyone gets to decide who leads us, or leaders are selected for us.<br /><br />In a society, are there implicit obligations on people, called morals & values, or do people choose what they will be responsible for, called rule-of-law.<br /><br />Commerce utilizes market-forces, individual actors making decisions for themselves, but a few times in our history there have been price controls and rationing, a top-down, command approach.<br /><br />The choice of economy, Capitalist vs. Marxian, decides whether the focus is on owners or workers?<br /><br />And is knowledge can be based on science which can be tested by anyone, or mysticism where proclamations are made & not questioned.</p>