Ideologies are Nonsense

As children progress through school, from elementary to secondary education and finally to college they learn over and over again that the world can be understood intellectually, i.e. with a toy, symbolic model. Ideologies are a description of those models. They're like a rulebook for dungeons and dragons, or a card game.

Often, the rulebooks and manifestos created by authors of ideologies are thousands of pages long. The ranting of a person who's tried to transcribe reality into a dead pile of letters can't keep up with reality, of course. No matter how much they write and stipulate all the details of life, they fall far short.

Ideologies are sometimes paired with violent cults. Some poor people wander into that maze of insane ideas and decide to try to live there. It's like basing your life on Magic the Gathering.