The novelist or the poet may well use nonfictional prose to purge his own anger, to give vent to his vituperation against his confrères, and to relieve his imagination of all the ideological burden that might otherwise encumber it.
By making his Utopians adopt a communality of possessions More liberates them from the passions generated by acquisition and loss; by the same token, they are relieved of the whole ideological burden which distorts European society.
If Mr. Bloomberg decides to run as an independent or third-party candidate, he may find that he enjoys the benefits of New York City successes without the ideological burdens Mr. Giuliani has faced in trying to win the Republican presidential nomination while being identified with support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control.
However, the heavy burden of neoconservative ideological baggage has, to borrow a phrase, forced a shift in the tectonic plates under the Atlantic.
Thus far, he has sought the advice only of ideological interest groups, so the burden should be on him to meaningfully consult Democrats—not on those Democrats to make a deal.
It asks members of Congress to stop burdening soldiers with ideological restrictions on their health care.
Together, bearing the burdens of financial, ideological and father-son tensions, they roamed the country for the Library of Congress during the Depression with recording equipment, trying to talk strangers into sharing their songs.
Of the three, though, it is Anne who emerges as the most interesting character, since she is less burdened with symbolic and ideological baggage than the two rivals for her affection.
But all that aside, I struggle with a more ideological question: Why do we continue to burden minorities with fixing the injustices created by the majority?
Why cannot we let a superhero be an old-fashioned superhero who just does what he's supposed to do -- save the world and the damsel in distress -- without burdening him with all this excess ideological baggage?
Indeed, the only bad actors in this story seem to be the state governments that stick their ideological thumbs on the scale by subsidizing one choice while unconstitutionally burdening another.
