[Daily Reckoning] After extended and painful deliberation... we have arrived upon an unshakeable conclusion:The most dangerous human being on Earth is the ideological human being.
It is the ideological human being — the human being set aflame by theory and belief — that most menaces our individual and collective happiness.
For the ideological man would wreck the world before he would see his ideology wrecked.
This is the man with theories. This is the man with ideas ricocheting throughout his skull. This is the man married to and devoted to abstractions.
It is the ideological man who is hot to "make the world safe for democracy"... to "save the planet"... to yell that a biological man can in fact be a woman and that a biological woman can in fact be a man... to hug the theory that spending trillions of dollars into existence will not yield an inflation... that the solution to a debt crisis is the creation of debt greater yet.
There you have ideological man.