Episode 57: How Ideology Conquers Common Sense | K.G.I. Podcast

Zeno of Elea argued that an infinite journey is impossible — before you reach your destination, you have to cross an infinite number of halfway points. I think that's exactly how ideology defeats common sense, and it does it in two stages.First, while it's fighting for power, ideology complicates. Argue with an ideologue and they force you to defend your point from an infinite number of angles at once — millions of half-steps, up, down, left, right — until you forget what you were even arguing about. Common sense gets lost in the maze. That's how it wins.Then, once it holds power, it does the opposite: it simplifies everything into something primitive and detached from reality. And because that nonsense can't survive contact with common sense, it needs tyranny to protect itself. You start self-censoring. You build an "ideological twin" — the version of you that you show the world — and you uphold it constantly. But you are what you practice. Practice the lie long enough, and it becomes you.The way out is responsibility, and it starts small. Stand your ground on the little things, and the big collapse never comes. Because once you become a friend to yourself, you finally have ground to stand on.My book Mary Falcon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2TKSQN5 My book Mythos https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK My Blog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com