Ideology

I am currently reading the autobiography of Venessa Redgrave, actor and activist. I am very impressed with Ms. Redgrave's talent and her boundless enthusiasm for those causes she has embraced in her life. Yet, her subscription to and influence upon ideologies based on social justice require her level of education, intelligence, affluence, notoriety, inherited beauty and hereditary privilege in her art. Ideologies suffer an inevitable corruption by power and affluence of their ideologues. This seems to explain to me why human evolution is so slow and convoluted. The greater the wealth of our species, which has garnered that wealth at the great expense of other species and the planet itself, the more time humans have to devote to thought, philosophy, expansion of the human identity from predator and warrior to nurturer and creator. Ms. Redgrave is an evolutionary icon. She is woman. She is mother. She is artist. She is intellectual. She is activist. The even distribution of human and planetary wealth will someday signal the beginning of a quantum leap in human evolution. Ms. Redgrave is a herald of that ideal. I seek those in life I can both understand and admire. I find reading a necessary part of this practice.