Mythologies itself was reworked last year for the era of selfies, vaping and Nando's by Peter Conrad on Radio 4 (startling lunchtime listeners waiting for The Archers); but it has exerted an influence for decades via cultural studies, where Barthes's aim of exposing hidden "ideological abuse" in popular culture is retained.
Claudia Card argues that "If the likelihood of the ideological abuse of a concept were sufficient reason to abandon the concept, we should probably abandon all normative concepts, certainly 'right' and 'wrong.'" (Card 2010, 15) And yet evil-skeptics do not believe that we should abandon all normative concepts.
All this confirms a profound truth about our national life, which is that there comes a time when ideological objections to some notional abuse have to be abandoned in the face of people's determination to enjoy themselves.
"If men like Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country," she explains.
Political prisoners are subjected to widespread abuses, including forced ideological re-education, extended solitary confinement, and the denial of medical treatment for serious illnesses.
"Bringing all these people who are so associated with a polarised ideological crusade that committed human rights abuses threatens to rekindle that partisanship," said Reed Brody, legal director of Human Rights Watch in New York.
Jacob Candelaria, an openly gay New Mexico state senator who sponsored the bill, stressed to reporters that protecting children from abuse "transcends party labels and ideological differences".
ANTONIN SCALIA -- The two justices, ideological opposites, shared a passion for policing abuses of the language.
They "abuse power" at the Department of Health and Human Services using ideological lies and pseudo-science to justify making contraception inaccessible, if not illegal.
Among the most strident criticisms was that he is overreaching, abusing his mandate, tucking too many ideological priorities into his purportedly neutral response to the Great Recession.
Ideological movements arise in reaction to the perceived abuses and excesses of the incumbents, and then those movements recede when "their" side takes power.
