Just a few weeks ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg decided to invest some of his personal fortune in reshaping a national political debate that he complained was obsessed with superficial ideology instead of facing up to vital challenges.
The byproducts are painted with bright enamel, like real Greek daídala, thus showing in a strident way the difference between surface and matter, an obvious allusion to the opposition between the Council's superficial ideology and the true reality of neighborhoods.
But some observers say that Mr. Bo's father, Bo Yibo, had good relations with Mr. Jiang and that Bo Xilai's "red revival" might be more a matter of superficial campaigning than ideology.
Marx considered Bentham an "arch-philistine" and utilitarianism a superficial and ephemeral bourgeois ideology (Capital I, Ch. XXIV, sect. 5).
By participating in a growing network of concerned citizens, people begin to see that policies and programs are what matter, and they begin to resent the superficial politics of personality and predetermined ideology.
Wakamatsu, who admits to having supported the group ("like many intellectuals"), says something surprising about it: "The Nixon/Mao meeting in February 1972 was a tremendous disappointment: our entire pro-Chinese and anti-American ideology was suddenly revealed to us to be completely superficial".
The troubling ideology of deference to the political process, based on the superficial belief that elections correct mistakes, ignores the reality that too often interest groups control policy without persuading the public and somewhere in that transaction is a complicit and eager politician.
Safi added that the couple's understanding of Islam was superficial and that law enforcement should have helped them overcome their extreme ideologies, instead of fostering them.
I was surprised when my professor not only did NOT make his ideology known (even when asked), but that the content of the course far surpassed the superficial discussions we hear about politics every day.
Detractors charged that his work was "popular" history, more superficial than overarching, focusing unduly on goods, services and processes at the expense of ideas and ideologies.
"It's a line that's about taste on the most superficial level, which fundamentally can only fall within the bigger discourses of skin color and discrimination, racism and white supremacist ideology.
