For "ideology" read "paradigm"?

I've often been accused of being an "ideologue" by people who confuse conviction with dogmatism. Mario Rizzo has a wonderful article exploring the function of what he calls "reasonable" ideology:

What appears to be a sensible idea to turn our problems into purely technical ones is, on the contrary, profoundly unscientific and, more generally, anti-intellectual.

It's a shame that many people who are dismissed as an "ideologue" possess acute self-awareness about their own mental models. Conversely those who do the dismissing are often dangerously wedded to subconscious paradigms (e.g. positivism). Similarly, as Vincent Ostrom says,

“We have the potential then of those who reject religion becoming the prophets of new secular religions"

For more on my thoughts regarding economic "theology" see here. There is nothing "mere" about ideology.

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