[long_time_gone]

I'm not the person you were discussing with, but couldn't help but notice that this comment you call the person an ideologue:

> Again, life is complex. Abandon ideology.

Seems to be in direct conflict with this comment you made earlier:

> I find that when we call someone an ideologue today, or refer to an ideology, it is always a false narrative-based over-simplification of the world.

The idea of abandoning ideology is it's own ideology, no?

[PathOfEclipse]

I don't think so, no. The call to abandon ideology is to recognize that narratives can contain truths in a limited form, but it is an error but to treat them as more than they are. I don't see that as an ideology, but as a simple fact about narratives and ideologies themselves. They are, by design, simplifications of reality, or very narrow windows into reality.

[long_time_gone]

I'm suggesting that in the implementation of what you describe, there is ideology at play. To me, it seems like ignoring that is it's own, different type of ideology.