Three Ways to not become an Ideologue

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Let’s face it: we’re all ideologues to varying degrees. We all rely on heuristics, mental models, and narrative structures to make sense of the complex world we live in. Even if our ideologies aren’t explicit, we still hold implicit assumptions about the world — about human nature, morality, notions of an ideal society, and so forth. Our perception of the world will always be ideologically tinted, whether we admit it or not.