Debunking old illusions becomes a new ideology that destroys their truth.
Evidence
In cleaning up this mess, analytic philosophy conceptualizes the behavior in the present technological organization of reality, but it also accepts the verdicts of this organization; the debunking of an old ideology becomes part of a new ideology. Not only the illusions are debunked but also the truth in those illusions. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 685
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-enlightenment ideology unconsciously reveres what it seeks to destroy; Purely immanent criticism, dominant since New Criticism, is an illusion. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1429; Ideology converts abstract theories into comprehensive factual lies believed as sacred truths (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Ideology converts abstract theories into comprehensive factual lies believed as sacred truths
#expands(0.85) - Deconverts often become bitter toward their former belief community.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 209 - The operational concept becomes false by atomizing facts within the repressive whole
#expands(0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 430 - Faithful duplication makes reality itself ideological by collapsing image into thing
#expands(0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 114 - Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class
#complicates(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 339 - Matter-of-factness itself has become an ideology of treating people as things.
#expands(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 36