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The lens you forgot you were wearing, insisting everyone else is blind.
means A connected set of beliefs about how society, power, or morality should work, shared by a group and used to interpret everything else.
from Coined in late 18th-century France as 'idéologie' — literally 'the study of ideas,' from Greek 'idea' (form, notion) plus '-logia' (study of). It was meant as a sober name for a science of how ideas form in the mind. Napoleon, irritated by thinkers he saw as impractical theorists, twisted it into an insult for rigid, unworldly doctrine — and that scornful sense is the one that stuck and spread into modern usage.
- origin twist
- Coined to mean the neutral science of ideas
- self-blind spot
- Everyone sees it except whoever's wearing it
- marx's jab
- Called it the ruling class's ideas disguised as everyone's
- sneaky feature
- Feels like common sense, not a belief system