re: #6 Sergey Romanov

They drive each other. E.g. a violent ideology may spring up because of some objective reasons (whether it be general poverty or something else). Even if the initial reasons dissipate, the ideology, that mental virus, may stay for a long time. Such is the nature of ideologies. So if the ideology lives on regardless of initial reasons, the external forces may cause the initial reasons to return or to worsen. This, in turn, will radicalize ideology even more. It’s just an observation, there’s no easy solution in such a vicious circle, I just disagree with “when…, then…” - there will be no “when” while the population can’t make a living. Bad conditions cause bad ideology, which in turn causes more bad conditions.

Actually, that is not the case. While it may appear to be so, nothing could be further from the truth.

The Nazis cultivated an ideology before that ideology drove behavior. Conversely, MLK’s ideology of non violence set the stage for non violent protests as defining his cause.

Are there outliers? Of course there were. Nevertheless in virtually every instance of change, in virtually every case, ideology that drives behavior.