Sometimes, things don’t go our way — our childhood pet dies, a parent falls ill, a horrible injury leaves us unable to care for ourselves. The accidence of chance reminds us that we are not in control, and never truly were: “the total character of the world… is in all eternity chaos — in the sense not of a lack of necessity but of a lack of order, arrangement, form, beauty, wisdom.In the critique of ideology, it is a mistake to assume that ideology expresses itself only as an empty form—an empty vessel in which any ideological content may be placed. This cynical view of ideology expresses itself in the popular frustration with politics’ inability to effect change in the status quo. In this naive political view, the problem with politics is its lack of commitment to an Idea or cause beyond politics; for example, the failure of politicians to address the ‘real problems’ facing today’s ‘global community’, the protection of ‘human rights’ and sanctity of ‘international law’ etc.