Idealisms...?!

Many people adopt theories to their way of life to provide orientation, purpose and direction to their day to day flow and short term and long term goals and ambitions. Back when Freud was popular many applied his theories to their lives ignoring whether there is degree of applicability or not. Some years later, people started applying [wrong interpretation’s of] Nietzsche’s Ubermench to their lives…today, what is popular is applying an interest-based theory of economics daily lives. A theory of life created based on maximizing utility (i.e. happiness or satisfaction) in a world of scarce resources.

A great deal of this theory as it applies to human life was developed much longer ago. It dates back to Smith and Bentham in the 17th and 18th century. Theories of morality and law based on these views went a long way, they even established some of the basics of natural law, and limited the power of monarchy in England. There's nothing wrong with adapting those views, but in our banal world of today where Smith is but a celebrity, you just adopt an ostensibly logical and simple theory of utility to your view of life, a banal-ized theory of what used be the basis for constitutions of nations. That's when your ignorance becomes radical, when it turns into a dogma.

Don’t forget though…this is not any dogma…it is dogma that you take and apply to your daily routines…it’s of the same dogma as dogma of that man who beats his wife, or that of an interviewer who denies the best candidate an offer because of ethnicity. It is an ideal or a purpose that you adopt, and it allows you to see many choices of action justified. Many means become justified so far as they would serve an end. As such you become maybe gradually but surely, the definition of what goes around for ‘bad.’ Like how smelling is bad, or smoking is bad, or killing someone is bad. You fall into that ‘bad’ category and you wouldn’t even know it.