I know that Althusser is totally cancelled, but the guy was right about ideology. What you "believe" is meaningless; what you are willing to do, even in contradiction to your beliefs, to get resources, or just to be seen as "good," is what gives power to the powerful and hurts less obedient people.
Eventually, a lot of us who got somewhere by bending ourselves into doing things against our beliefs start to look around at what we got for it and realize it's not worth it. That's a midlife crisis.
Carrie Shanafelt /
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