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vrganjtoday at 2:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

This wrongly assumes a few things about ideology, most importantly that there is such a thing as a "center" or an "unbiased" position.

Since humans are inherently subjective beings and all our judgements come from our understanding of the world, such a position cannot exist. It's always "unbiased" from where the viewer is looking, e.g. a reflection of the ideology of the observer. There is no view from nowhere.

The "neutral" of an average Chinese person will from the "neutral" of an average American will differ from the "neutral" of a socialist will differ from the "neutral" of a Christian fundamentalist will differ from the "neutral" of a free marketer.

To quote Zizek:

> I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology.

> The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament when we are within ideology is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology.