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>pure ideology

There is a loose but under-appreciated practical relationship in any halfway decent philosophy. Once you realize that everything is a philosophy--as in the virtual agency of ideology--you realize that the philosopher is the true riddler of the world. Everyone, everything, has a philosophy; not so much in that it has a philosophic description, but that it embodies a philosophy in its form and function.

I just finished watching Jaws. The movie itself has a philosophy--for one thing it is OK to misrepresent the behavior of sharks if it makes for riveting entertainment-- but the shark itself has a philosophy.

"I am an evolutionary machine that must eat to supply its enormous vestigial mass. I will fulfill this function without regard for human ethics or a concept of their suffering."

Furthermore, in response to such a being philosophy we develop our own:

"I am a man. The notion of a sea monster devouring young children and biting men in half defies my deepest sense of the wrong. I am compelled as if by a higher cause to kill it."

And so on it goes in a Hegelian dialectic until some productive result is achieved.