Ideology is the first step to living in a lie. These two
steps are so closely related that I think it is impossible to leave living
within the lie out of the equation. Ideology supplies the lie within which the
people live. It is the façade – the bridge to the regime – that allows people
to live the lie. Ideology provides the blanket opinions, tells the citizens the
way they should act and think, and allows them to hide behind it so as to not
get caught living in the truth – thus it is living in the lie.
One can realize he/she is living in a lie and feel helpless
and do nothing to remove themselves from the lie which just fuels the ideology
and the lie. Only once one realizes he/she is living a lie and does something
to change it is he/she living in the truth. And when one starts to live in the
truth, he/she illuminates the cracks in the façade, they show that it is just “a
game” which allows everyone else to see that it is just a game and spurs them
to step out of the lie as well.
When one person starts to live the truth it shows that ideology
is a lie, threatening ideology itself. Thus it comes full circle – living in
the truth will promote living in the truth and extinguish the lie of ideology.
Excellent interpretation.
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