The thought came to my mind that there is actually no difference which ideas the humanity or the single human being believes in. And why is that? – you ask me. Let me tell you.
Ideas are social constructs – the product of the human mind, they are artificial, pure imagination. If we are not into physics but some social constructs, abstract and vague ideas – there is no actual difference between them. You can persuade that the idea you support or propose is the only one true; you can give its advantages to your audience and refute its drawbacks.
And still you will be there – there is no difference whether people consider some things true and right or they disregard some of them, or all.
For political science you are at that – you have your idea, you promote it, you get your followers and like-minded supporters.
And in the end you have this wide range of diverse ideas, theories and concepts, which explain the same things with different attitudes. And that’s because you can always invent some fresh approach to an old phenomena.
And as they are all the products of our imagination, only the question of attitude makes them more or less effective, more or less comfortable or acceptable.
Let us remember those numerous examples of the theories failing to succeed in reality for some cases and proving their effectiveness in other.
Here’s an easy example – communism. We remember how bright the idea sounded to its inventors and their supporters, then we remember what happened in the Soviet Union where the totalitarian system was convenient for far too little percent of population too live on. And the Chinese communism seems today an essential for maintaining the peace and unity in tremendously huge China.
The perception of the reality which the idea, theory or concept provide is decisive in the question whether it will live on or fade away and die. And the perception is formed by persuasion, by manipulation, by the mechanism of suggestion.
