PetalswiththeWind Marx and Engels

It is public knowledge that politicians have self serving agendas. However, the same types of leaders continue to be re-elected ruling our living conditions based on their belief systems. Is it not a conflict of interest of society at large to remain in a hegemonic state that continues to take us in an on going circle? The ruling class’ ideology has us at war once again, and it is not them who are dying for their own cause, we are. Today politicians prance around like celebrities, rather than being there to serve the people as a government of democracy. World leaders of today are so far away and detached from the people, viewing themselves above, rather than apart of the human race, wanting the glory of Gods. With a following of fans glorifying them as if they are Gods.
Where has the passion for living gone? It is out of our hands, and passivity has replaced it? Marx and Engels explain, “the phenomenon that ever more abstract ideas hold sway, i.e., ideas which increasingly take on the form of universality” (40). Ideology points to the singularity of ideas. If there is only one “right” way of thinking, then there should only be one person in existence in the whole entire world. If we all share the same set of ideologies, it’s as if only one person is alive. Does a universal consensus of an idea make it true for all, and if so, even in simple arithmetic there is more than one way to get to an answer, and when problems get more complex in the subject of Math and life there are no exact answers. The seriousness of life is that we all only know or have this one chance to live it. Yet we are told and taught to live it in certain ways, fulfilling the dreams of others, and dreaming the dreams that we are told are ours.