The Blackberry Walk

Ideologies are straitjackets of thought. Naturally the world is too complex to understand, necessitating the heuristic-based thinking of an ideology to map and make distinct the facets of reality. Lumped in to ideology, any kind of endeavour of thought can succumb to this Procrustean thinking, such as philosophy or theology, granted the aspect of mystery isn't accommodated. What is Procrustean thinking then? Named after the ancient Greek tale of Procrustes, the villain who lopped off feet and stretched people out to fit his bed (the eponymous Procrustean bed), Procrustean thinking is precisely that: the violent destruction and stretching of our perception of reality to fit the 'bed' of our preconceived notions. The ideology is the bed to which we debauch reality into fitting. Falsehood will always yield to truth, just as a shadow will always yield to sunlight. The Procrustean pathology can only last twisted so long until a worldview has to be thrown out; once you realise how many tones of colour have been filtered out from your perception and you witness the true whole colour of white light, you emerge from the Platonic cave which your Procrustean ideology has had you entombed. Can you see through walls? The opaqueness of systematisation presents a kind of idolatry where you can't see through and beyond. Ideology is idolatry since it is to hold up a fundamental set of beliefs and principles as what is truly behind the world. But, by virtue of being molded by human thumbs, these earthenware idols which attempt to summon the truth through their form only brings down demons. The great mystery underpinning reality cannot be seen if you believe walls to be opaque, for you won't be able to see through to what is within and beyond.