The dangers of ideology to future progress (the series)

A Table of Contents with links to a series of articles on this topic.

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Below is a list of my articles on the key sub-theme of Substack: Ideology and how many of them undermine human material progress.

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1. Understanding ideology:

   1. Where do ideologies come from?

   2. Why neither the Left nor the Right have solutions

   3. Why Ideologues Get History Backwards

2. A few podcasts and videos on the topic:

   1. Where do ideologies come from? (podcast version; video version)

   2. Why Ideologies Threaten Progress (Part 1 of 3-part podcast series; video version of series)

   3. Why ideologies fail (podcast version; video version)

3. Understanding Totalitarian ideologies:

   1. Radical ideologies feast on mental disorders

   2. Why Radical Ideologies Rise—and Why They Always Collapse

   3. The rise of Totalitarian Ideologies in the 20th Century

   4. Descent into a man-made Hell: Understanding modern Totalitarianism

   5. The Rebirth of the Totalitarian Left in the 21st Century

   6. The dangers of Soft Totalitarianism

   7. Were Hitler and the National Socialists actually Socialist?

4. Why Left-of-Center ideologies are the main threat to continuing material progress:

   1. The Central Moral Dilemma of the Left

   2. What are Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies?

   3. The Left's definition of "progress" is not progress at all

   4. Why the Left undermines Progress

   5. Why the Left endures

   6. The Left has hit a historic dead-end

   7. Explaining the “Long March through American Institutions”

   8. Two wings of the Green movement

5. How ideologies undermine Upward Mobility for working class and poor:

   1. Ideologies of the Left undermine copying the successful

   2. Why copying is essential to Progress

   3. Why copying is essential to individual success

   4. More on the Golden Rules of Success

   5. Does the Politics of Resentment work?

6. How ideologies undermine mental health and human flourishing:

   1. Why are people still unhappy in a world of progress?

   2. Is material progress driving us crazy?

   3. Why studying Progress may be an antidote to your troubles

   4. Is Green activism based on good intentions?

7. more articles on the topic

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