5 Signs You’re A Rigid Ideologue

An ideologue is someone who fabricates simple, soothing ideas to disconnect from the chaos he perceives to be reality. Someone who has ideas, however, uses them to correctly identify and so understand reality.

The allure of an ideology is it’s a defense against painful emotional issues the ideologue has yet to manage. As such, an ideology is more like an illness than a chosen philosophy—it’s something that happens to us when we don’t take care of our mental health.

Here are five indications you’re using ideas to tune out from reality instead of understanding it.

1. You cannot portray the opposition well


Ideologues are more likely to convince themselves they’re right in contrast to an opposition, which is a fabricated projection that makes their side seem sympathetic by comparison. If Trump is indeed on the same moral plane as Hitler, then your opposition to Trump will only indulge your savior complex—hence, you’ll always be right. Unless you can make your opponent’s case better than he can make it himself, you will unconsciously allow yourself to feel more right than you are.

2. Your IQ is lower than 115


The uncomfortable emotional issues that ideology assuages usually stem from childhood trauma. This takes the form of repeated abuse, whether physical, sexual, or emotional. We can overcome this trauma through the conscious processing of it, and even use it to our advantage, but only if our IQ is at least 115.

This may seem controversial but it’s an accepted position among psychologists behind closed doors. If we’re in the lower 85 percent of the population regarding intelligence, then we lack the conceptual ability required to make meaning out of trauma. As a result, we’ll inevitably construct a simple ideology as a way to soothe the pain.

3. You had sex too early, or too late


There isn’t anything technically wrong with having a first, sexual experience at 13 years old, but an early onset of physical intimacy indicates a problem with forming healthy attachments. If we could form healthy attachments at that age, then we will be more comfortable in our childhood and so more likely to hold off on sex until at least age 16. This is more true for women but it’s also true for men.

Conversely, anyone who’s still a virgin at 24, and who isn’t physically deformed, typically has serious anxiety issues. It’s these sorts of anxiety issues most people (see above point) have a difficult time coming to terms with. Distraction, even a clever one, is much easier and can feel much better in the short term.

4. You have unhealthy relationships with your parents


The two relationships that have the most bearing on our lives are the ones with mom and dad. Freud was right about this. If we cannot develop close connections with them that mature from benevolent dictatorship in childhood to one of deep friendship in our early to mid-20s, then it’s going to be much more difficult to relate with the rest of humanity.

Without the secure relationships our nature craves, anxiety accumulates and we must latch on to an ideology as a psychological salve. Pick up the phone and call your parents to inoculate yourself against the benzo effects of the crowd.

5. You’re a pragmatist


Men who believe they are above ideological trappings by proclaiming themselves to be pragmatists are usually the ones most riddled by an ideology. Philosophy—or religion, which is a kind of philosophy—when consciously chosen, is a framework through which we can navigate the messy world of thought. No man is above ideas like no lion is above using his fangs. The question comes down to how well our ideas reflect reality (i.e. how sharp are our fangs?).

Conclusion

There’s nothing wrong with ideas or ideologies. What matters is their accuracy and how we use them. Though it’s difficult to develop ideas that reflect reality and venerate man unless we become in touch with the reality of who we are, our virtues and faults. Only by first looking at ourselves correctly can we then turn out and look at reality correctly.

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43 thoughts on “5 Signs You’re A Rigid Ideologue”

  1. Let’s see if I got it:
    Understanding reality using reason, wasn’t that the main aspect of the French Revolution?
    Should we go back to the guillotine just to make a point?

  2. Did you pull those 5 points outta ur ass?
    Why only 5 and not 4 or 6?
    Is ROK running out of ideas?

  3. This is why some black men seem alpha, the really only have IQs slightly above room temperature. They live only in the present, and how happy would you be all the time if you didnt remember you had a mortgage until they started stapling eviction notices on your front door?

  4. I think the title should be changed to ‘5 reasons pschology is full of shite’.

    1. It is possible to spell ‘shite’ without using a single letter. Like this:
      §¦-¦¡†
      Pretty cool huh?

  5. Good article. Ideology is for those who don’t want to, or can’t, think. The ideology (right or left) provides all answers for them as well as provides a sense of self “righteousness.” A famous philosopher noted once that ideologues may or may not believe in God but they all believe in some sort of devil.

    1. In colleges a psych elective class is a place to meet majority females. In community college or trade school, medical assistant class is 90%+ female. Private trade school is costly but a comm college class is pocket change.
      A psych class of 30+ will have 2-3 super hotties. Some whales doing socialist service degree credits will be in the mix. Know your psychobabble and use the fatties as a breaker wall during the lecture to duck behind with the hottie once kino, pen lending and civil petting like knuckles, high fiving and spock handshakes commence. Yes spock hadshake is very intimate making two ‘V’ legs where she does the same with her fingers. She’s down buddy once she’s spocked.

  6. I’m pragmatic. I don’t see anything wrong with that. I hold a higher standard of others in the workplace than they do of themselves, and the end result is they produce better work when trying to meet my standards. I also hold a higher standard of what I deem acceptable living standards than most people I interact with, end result, I’m living in a nice little situation right now.
    We are all responsible for our direct enviornments, our home, our work, family, friends, so why not enforce a high standard for the environment you live in (people, surroundings)? If you don’t like your friends, or workplace, or whatever, and you can’t change it, move. Simple. Don’t ever settle for shit; I haven’t.

  7. As more people become more emotionally unstable, words continue to lose their meaning; i.e. “literally, amazing, totally, really, unique, completely, honestly, unbelievable,” to name a few. Instead of demonstrating their ideology, they replace their actions with exaggerated language and emotions as a phony display of confidence. Ideologies are nothing more than aspirations for the emotionally unstable. They think simply having the aspiration alone counts for something. Leftists consider themselves to be humanitarians. How many of them actually go out, grab a shovel and make a difference in someone’s life or fix something. They don’t, hence the exaggerated language. Those who lead by demonstrating don’t feel the need to give lip service. Loud whining arouses suspicion of covering a deep insecurity.

    1. Well said, sir.
      A better name for liberals is pharisees. Wonder why they can’t stand the New Testament. Because it’s the greatest book on pharisees ever written.

      1. “A better name for liberals is pharisees”
        Bingo.
        And why I cringe/ laugh whenever lefties who spend the rest of their time trashing Christians, turn around and try to argue that Jesus would be “one of them” if he was around today.
        No, idiot- Jesus was all about personal responsibility, accountability and AGAINST judging other people and self-righteousness- two traits lefties show in abundance.
        Lefties The Current Year (TM) have little in common with Jesus and his disciples, but a LOT in common with the Pharisees!

      2. “A better name for liberals is pharisees”
        Bingo.
        And also why I cringe/ laugh whenever lefties who spend the rest of their time trashing Christians, then turn around and try to argue that Jesus would be “one of them” if he was around today.
        No, idiot- Jesus was all about personal responsibility, accountability and AGAINST judging other people and self-righteousness- two traits lefties show in abundance.
        Lefties in The Current Year (TM) have little in common with Jesus and his disciples, but a LOT in common with the Pharisees!

    2. This is pretty much 99% of Americans. Seriously, this country is getting dumber and dumber by the second.

  8. I often hear people say, “how can liberals be this stupid?” I would imagine if you are completely bankrupt of anything that would create a healthy self esteem and you finally find an ideology that will allow you to relieve some of the responsibility of feeling like a loser, you would be hard pressed to give it up. When you have nothing, it is much easier to have a “bad guy,” and a devils brigade of enablers. These people have no control over their life and it’s extremely frustrating for them. This battle for acquiring self esteem will be called “my fight.” And the frustration of being a loser will be called “strength.” I think the word that best describes them is “lost.” Healthy people know where to direct their energy because they know from previous experience that their actions yield positive results for their self esteem.

    1. Losers, low IQ, damaged and bankrupt people, the loo downs if you will are on the lawn, let out of their boxes and are purturbed and enabled to dominate their betters. It is the inferior overrunning the superior or the kids taking over the classroom.

      1. Hmm, it is more complex than that. Western people seem to be in a massive stage of senile, and then you add into that the fact most of them are individualized, demoralized, arrogant, angry, and completely ignorant of the world going on around them. It is really getting bad these days.

      2. Oh, and it isn’t just the low IQ people. High IQ people are some of the worst since they can actually make their dumbass arguments seem intelligent…and they are 100x more arrogant.

        1. Their higher education was seemingly wasted on learning and perfecting how to dress up bullshit with intellectualized wank and mental gymnastics.

      3. CB (citizen’s band) radio… often used by truckers, road travelers, started quickly being made with a function called “squelch.” The squelch allowed you to drown out the signals that weren’t strong, thus only the strongest signals made it through your speaker. With the net, tech, phones, social media, we’ve given everyone rock-star tools for self-broadcasting. The problem is, no one uses the “squelch” knob. So, we all get all the whole signal constantly. Sure you can individually block users, etc, but instead of natural selection weeding out the weak (signal), we gave them a gain-knob so they can invade everyone and anyone at any time. I can see why so many are unplugging from it all. Before you know it, you’ve wasted 10 years of your life online, or “connected” fighting bullshit that’s inconsequential.
        I think the old adage of “talk is cheap,” fits marvelously in today’s climate. I remember a 9 bartender I almost had in the bag in my 20s. Her dad came up to the bar to visit. I didn’t know it was her dad. At some point I said;”talk is cheap.” He freaked out and said; “B.s., talks is everything.” Apparently he was a career sports caster. This then led to him betting me he could do 20 push-ups in 30 seconds or something. He did 1/4 range of motion push ups then held out his hand to collect his $$. I nearly swung on him, the bar had to pull us apart. See the reality of it all? Too much talking, not enough doing. We have a president who both talks, AND does. People are losing their shit because everyone has become a cheap talking bitch anymore. Hilarious.

  9. ‘This is why some black men seem alpha, the really only have IQs slightly above room temperature. They live only in the present, and how happy would you be all the time if you….’
    etc etc
    This is your ‘IQ above 85’ thinking?
    Unintelligent.
    Not everything, not even the nature of ideology, is about your sexual jealousy of black men.
    Honest.

  10. Several good points, but I think that a pragmatic and rational approach is often the way to go. Most ideologies have pros and cons, so when we think about society and the future we tend to create hybrid discourses, that is, a mix of several ingredients from the past and present.
    But overall, these days the main difference in an ideological respect is between globalism and nationalism. Globalism – especially mass immigration, political correctness and “diversity” – has been taken to so far that we need a lot of healthy nationalism to balance this larger process. I am not talking about being isolationist in a technological and economic sense, but to deport (illegal) immigrants of various kinds from the West and almost close the borders for newcomers. Furthermore, more traditional ethics and aesthetics must somehow intermingle with modern science and rationality. People need to build beautiful towns and cities, lose weight, drop SJW, make people with 100+ IQ have more kids, while simultaneously figure out how to make those with two-digit figures become predominantly sterile.

    1. ‘I am not talking about being isolationist in a technological and economic sense, but to deport (illegal) immigrants of various kinds from the West and almost close the borders for newcomers. Furthermore, …..’
      …and so on and so forth.
      You sound like me back in my Uni. days.
      I could have said exactly that in the Liverpool Student Union in 1995.
      I was saying ‘forced deportation using the Army’.
      Ah, the innocence of youth, eh?
      Seriously, though.
      Everyone with a modicum of sense, common or otherwise; knows this will not happen.
      These dreams will never be fulfilled, and soon, even dreaming them will be illegal.
      True story.
      So, that said, my practical suggestion is to stop hoping ‘the West’ will somehow revive. It will not. No human society has ever revived from a state such as ours.
      ps
      I’d disagree about nationalism vs globalism.
      That is a subset of the female vs male orientated social organisation/culture.
      King regards.

        1. Ha.
          German told me that joke a while back.
          His version, ”..when I only said ‘No’

        2. No, it isn’t.
          Demography.
          Geography.
          MONEY.
          These cannot be ignored.
          Or maybe they can, eh?

  11. “If we’re in the lower 85 percent of the population regarding intelligence, then we lack the conceptual ability required to make meaning out of trauma. As a result, we’ll inevitably construct a simple ideology as a way to soothe the pain.”
    Interesting stat. Do you have a source for that? I do agree that IQ and cognitive inflexibility are linked (unsuprisingly) and that the latter makes for rigid / overly concrete beliefs. On the other hand re. ‘meaning-making’ as a coping skill this is something that potentially can be guided through even if it doesn’t evolve as an inner psychological resource

  12. “An ideologue is someone who fabricates simple, soothing ideas to disconnect from the chaos he perceives to be reality.”
    Hey guys I know ‘game’ so society and feminism isn’t that bad after all. Just keep working harder, don’t complain and enjoy the decline my nihilistic brothers.

  13. It seems rather hypocritical to write this article and make the very rigid claim that one can only overcome trauma if their iq is 115 or above. Furthermore, #5 could apply to any philosophy. Pragmatism seems like an arbitrary one to go after. While I can see how there might be a link with some of the other points, some empirical evidence i.e. a study would drive the point home. A graduate psychology student should know to deal in factual evidence rather than subjective opinions.

  14. Ideologue – an adherent of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic. Pragmatic definition (lol) – someone who can’t learn from others’ previous mistakes and mishaps, prone rather, to investing their lives heavily into these failed systems.
    What’s the common thread? No rote learning, all postulation. These are the vertebrae of living an unbalanced life. Life is about balance. You get too far away from your balance for too long, you begin to self-exterminate, both as individuals, and as a society.

    1. I’d also add – IQ test is too over rated and focused here. There are lot of stupid people who both get it right (partially), and wrong(en masse). EQ (Emotional Quotient) should have been compared/contrasted along with IQ to make this a balanced article. Moreover, where the IQ & EQ intersect and how one affects the other could be expanded on. A logical conclusion is that what we’ve seen is manipulation of EQs to climb the IQ ladder and affect relatively otherwise, smart (high IQ) people. Finally, a test for IQ doesn’t account for everything it probably should to test for “intelligence,” as the mere addition of the WWW has changed the knowledge base dramatically, yet the overreaching scientific method applied will never, ever change.
      An easy test for the IQ / EQ balance is time spent around a person. Let’s say a 1-3 month period. Why 1 month minimum? So you can navigate the menstrual cycle if said subject is female. During that time, a person will convey knowledge and ideas with language. Language is either 1) Informative, 2) Emotional, or 3) a combination of both. Someone with a healthy IQ/EQ balance won’t overdose their informative speaking with emotion, nor their emotional speaking with logic & information. An effective person will sprinkle informative speaking with inflections of emotion for persuasive purposes, NOT make it the primary tonal flow of the point they’re trying to make. logically with emotion.
      The main point I’m getting at, is on paper, otherwise high IQ people are technically stupid as fuck if their EQ isn’t in check. It’s the low EQ that makes one “uncompromising and dogmatic” about just about every topic, or worse, the undefinable “cherry picker,” which is where an enormous about of middle-class women reside. It’s sad really, I see some very clever, valuable people throwing their lives away by latching onto “causes” that are inconclusive.

  15. Do you consider Christianity and ideology.
    Do you consider keeping oneself until marriage as included.in your point number 3?

  16. 6. You’re a conspiracy theorist.
    7. You donate money to conspiracy activists, in the belief the conspiracy will finally be exposed, and the guilty brought to justice.

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