well i am studying sociology these days.i am currently reading max weber ideas and sociological theory.
Ideas
There is no pre-established correspondence between the content of an idea and the interests of those who follow from the first hour. But, in time, ideas are discredited in the face of history unless they point in the direction of conduct that various interests promote. Ideas, selected and reinterpreted from the original doctrine, do gain an affinity with the interests of certain members of special strata; if they do not gain such an affinity, they are abandoned.
when an objective is forgotten then we forget the idea as well.Sometimes we have an idea of perfection in our mind and we think if this was to become a reality all our problems would be solved ,that it would be panacea..to our ills.
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