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An organized group of concepts about human life or culture. A set of beliefs on which a political or economic system is based, or which strongly influence the way people behave.

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  • You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
  • But then, consistency in ideology is not the strong suit of many.
  • The term ideology refers to this simultaneous war on reality and campaign for unreality.
  • Your ideology is code for "let's make everyone equally poor and governed by the elite few".
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