ideology maturity conflicting desires

ideology is the idea that everything is either good or bad … it’s a sign of maturity to be able to hold on to two conflicting desires or two opposing ideas at the same time without immediately rejecting one or the other, before there has been time for a careful discernment. To live with desire is to live with tension … coincidences of opposites point to something transcendent … the reason things seem like they shouldn’t coexist is that they don’t map onto how we experience the world. They don’t have a place on the map of meaning, our mental model of how the world works. They are a sign that we need … to reevaluate, to press deeper

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1. maturity vs means of obtaining approval

   for some people, their good looks — for others, absolute unselfishness, absolute virility, superman ideas, absolute goodness, and all kinds of

2. authoritarian regimes engineer desires

   Authoritarian regimes can only stay in existence so long as they can control what people want. We normally think of these regimes as controlling