The age of the Victorians saw the old certainties of religion crumble, to be
replaced by ideology and dark magic.
As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is
replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.
Not exact matches
«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War
ideologies «have been
replaced by the new
ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»
Now leaving the Church out of account for the moment, such a future society will be faced with the question how it can ask all its members to subscribe to such an ethos without
replacing (or at least endangering) the freedom of the individual
by an enforced
ideology and indoctrination.
He did say that we could not be His disciple and be held to or controlled
by family, possessions, jobs and other «worldly»
ideology to the point of those relationships
replacing Jesus as LORD (Luke 14:26).
Thus the
ideology of secularism was born,
replacing traditional legitimations of power
by appearing in the mantle of science and
by deriving its justification from the critique of tradition, thereby keeping actual power relations inaccessible to analysis and to public consciousness.26
It really was a matter here of a great intellectual and moral reformation of the French people, more complete than the German Lutheran Reformation, because it also embraced the great peasant masses in the countryside and had a distinct secular basis and attempted to
replace religion with a completely secular
ideology represented
by the national patriotic bond.23
Within one century the world has seen traditional religion fail, to be
replaced by «rationalist»
ideologies that often proved more weird and sinister than the most arcane supernaturalism.
Global warming and subsequently climate change were transport vehicles for a political
ideology to
replace free market capitalism
by claiming it» s byproduct, CO2, was exhausting world resources and destroying the planet.
Both fields are creative; in AI systems are built, experiments designed and paradigms
replaced, in Law regulations are passed
by lawmakers, precedents are set and
ideologies balanced.