at a certain point, most ideologies still rely on faith. There are two reasons for this. The first is that some things are just incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to test and verify. The other is that a lot of ideologies rely upon everyone in society having faith in the same thing. For instance, you can’t scientifically prove that money is intrinsically valuable. But we all believe it is, so it is.26 You also can’t prove that national citizenship is a real thing, or even that most ethnicities exist.27 These are all socially constructed beliefs that we’ve all bought into, taken on faith.
