“Us vs them” mentality.
Any religion. It makes people think of themselves as superior to other groups. It doesn’t even matter which religion. They’re all bad.
Good old fashioned tribalism.
Every other answer on this thread boils down to tribalism.
Religion, because they all believe that they are the only ones who are right, and everyone else needs to believe what they believe, or else something bad will come of it.
Its not necessarily an ideology but all the worst ideologies have at root a lack of empathy and active methods to extinguish any trace of it. So lack of empathy or the violent suppression of it root and stem
I’ve been warning that the average American lacks empathy for YEARS. Conservatives seemingly lack the ability to feel empathy at all, which is why Musk “warns” that empathy is dangerous.
Look where we are now 🙃
Great, now we have metaideologies.
I go deep
American Exceptionalism.
gestures broadly
Well, Islam is definitely up there - and you only need to look at the Middle East for evidence. What makes it particularly dangerous, in my view, is the doctrine itself - especially the parts concerning treatment of women, martyrdom and hatred of infidels.
As someone who escaped Islam - 100%. Unlike other religions that take original texts as interpretations Islam takes the original texts as literal words of God and is essentially stuck. It’s a dead religion that exists only through force.
Yeah, my understanding is that the interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadiths doesn’t allow for the same kind of flexibility or reform that the Bible does, for example. Of course, that doesn’t mean someone can’t practice a non-fundamentalist version of Islam - and many do - but it’s much harder to justify when you’re going against what’s considered the literal word of God.
Any and every form of dehumanization.
Any and every form of bigotry.
Any and every form of supremacy.
Any and every form of authoritarianism.
Every single person from the homeless guy at the on-ramp to TACO himself is an ordinary human. Some humans are born into extraordinary circumstances, some humans accomplish extraordinary feats, but we are all human. Humans are not born hating other humans. Hate is taught and encouraged and ingrained so that it may be passed on.
Universal Basic Income is a bandaid on a system couched in one of the ugliest human motivations; greed. I chose my name for that reason; Universal Basic Justice. Justice must be the base motivation; not ‘eye for an eye’ or ‘frontier justice,’ but the belief in treating others as you want to be treated; the belief in the powers of forgiveness, responsibility and growth; and the power of compassionate care dedicated to help those that are willing to learn and grow.
If and only if all those fail should a human be separated from society in a humane way that prevents their flaws from harming others.
Death Row is not justice. Guillotines are not justice. Systemic violence is not justice. No government nor individual should be empowered to decide who is worthy of justice, of forgiveness, of growth. Of life.
Every human is fallible. Every human deserves the opportunity to recognize their mistakes as well as the opportunity to learn, grow, and make reparations for those mistakes.
I don’t see these changes happening in my lifetime. At this point, I’m not sure we humans have enough lifetimes left to achieve these goals.
What I am sure of is the danger and violence incumbent within any ideology willing to look down at another human being.
Individualism.
It has led to a massive amount of duplication of human effort. We could all live massively improved lives if we acted as a community organization instead of a bunch of individual little fuckers whose opinions matter.
You should see what happens when you try force the people of an natural individualistic bend into community organization. Undermining, diversion and later, violence.
Right. Underscoring that individualism is a highly sinister force.
No, forcing compliance is the sinister part, resisting it is natural. People that talk like you is why people who disagree see little difference between fascism and socialism, one just has better health care access.
It ends in either replacing humans with AGI or massive atrocities in an attempt to achieve it.
And there are people in positions of real power who believe in this stuff and act on it.
Andreessen posted a manifesto where he said that deliberately delaying AGI is basically mass murder and should be treated as such.
I too, think this is a really dangerous one that hasn’t quite pinged on most peoples’ radar yet because it’s so niche, but like you said, when people with power and influence can actually act on it, they have the capacity to cause a lot of harm over what would normally just be fringe philosophies.
Ignorance.
It’s practiced by many, in alignment with arrogance. Many different flags, cloths, creeds and livelihoods depend on it.
I’d say it isn’t an ideology, but way too many people take pride on being ignorant. so it ends up being one
Look out for number one. Selfishness is at the root of most dangers to humanity.
This mentality and reinforced culture is a big reason inhuman corporate ideals and customs have festered throughout our society like a fungal infection.
It’s so difficult to organize because plenty of fellow workers will simply be passive and complacent with whatever increasingly bad lot they’re given, or worse, will be straight up class traitors looking to be rewarded by ruthless masters.
Ableism. As disability advocate Imani Barbarin says, if bigotry is the goal, ableism and eugenics are the toolkit. If you look at the history of any form of systemic bigotry, the justification for human atrocities almost always boils down to “well these people can’t contribute to society, so they don’t deserve to be a part of it.”
Any ideology may be dangerous. People who are convinced they’re tuned into a privileged view on reality may be willing to kill others to protect it. Human history is full of proofs of that.
“On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.” — Kenneth Clark
Any, all and each one of them. The moment you stop looking at how things are, you are finished and set right on the course of bringing unjustified pain and suffering
