On Ideology

Ideology has multiple-choice of meanings. In the context here, ideology is not merely idea, ideation or system of idea. Endowing with metaphysical and hegemonistic rhetorics, its semantics refer and defer in such away that can enchant people into believing without or dare not resort to proper reasoning and criticism, or can be sort of implanted in believer's mind. This sort of blind-faith is clearly not the nature of pragmatism. Historical lessons such as witch-hunts and Cultural Revolution teach us this sort of ideology is, if not more, every bits as precarious as nihilism. Nevertheless, this does not ensue that it can't be de-ontologistized and be a spatial-temporal, politically correct tool.

Both materialist and idealist pragmatism are error-prone. The former tends to be profit-oriented and damaging the environment. The latter can tilt toward building Babel Towers and extremely hypocritic. What we need is something paying regard to them, not "believing" in them, yet to have proper sustainable results.

Philosophers do not have to worry that this will drive a nine-inch-nail into the heart of philosophy. Definition of philosophy has never been stable. Contingently speaking, so long as there is thought reflexion, there is philosophy.