Everyone believes their ideology is based on reason and not determined by their sociotope. My sociotope just happens to be the most reasonable one.
Everyone? Plenty of people don't practice ideological thinking in the first place.
Unless one doesn't think at all, or is completely inconsistent, one will have ideology.
Seems like a pretty crazy claim, want to share your reasoning?
Merriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture"
No ideology = no characteristic thinking.
If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.
I have a very different ideology from most of my social milieu. That's how I know I am truly enlightened and rational /s
THey define High Status:
> Which means that educated and/or affluent
Both are equally tarred with similar traits, which I think the article describes quite well.
A lot of people who are supposed to be held in high status are actually held in contempt. Republicans hating Fauci and Biden no matter how much of an expert high status they are. And Democrats calling Trump or Bush #notmypresident means they won't recognize his authority no matter how much education either of them got
> High-status people are more preoccupied with how others view them. Which means that educated and/or affluent people may be especially prone to peripheral, as opposed to central, methods of persuasion.
There is a hidden assumtion in the above part. Did you spot it?
It is that educated people are also high status people, are also (overly) concerned about their reputation.
If this assumptions breaks, all the following about perpetuated ideology stands on a weak basis. After all, more educated people could tend to be more rational too.
To be fair, i would my left leaning ideology be based more on reason and not on my educational sociotope. May be just my bias.