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A Sense of Idea

When I was discussing with my friends the other day about rationalist vs religious ideology, it occurred to me that we cannot understand the world using single ideology. Any ideology is incomplete by nature. Be it the objective reality, advithic vethanta, capitalistic, communistic, pragmatic, utilitarian ideologies they are all ideal form of a specific world view. You can only strive for the best possible world view by contrasting and debating multiple and opposing ideals. It is analogues to how our senses help us perceive the world. No individual sense can provide full information about the world. The eye tells us that the world is a shifting shapes of colors, the touch tells us that the world is made of soft and rigid objects, the ear tells us that the world is varying amplitudes of vibration. We construct the model of the world inside our mind using this multiple incomplete and tangential information. This constructed model may not be the perfect representation of the real world bu...