You know your ideology is kind of like your fate. It's shapes your character. I think it's uncommon for people to actively shape their own ideology--to be aware of how they see the world and go through a process of molding a new view. If you control your ideology, I see it as controlling your fate. Really controlling your fate. (control fate? -- I'm not even sure I understand what I'm trying to mean by this.)
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Proust
But how much control over ideology can a person have? I don't know. I was trying to point out that this realist, individualistic, classically liberal ideology (I don't know what else to call it), i.e. looking with this pair of eyes, overemphasizes an empty idea of freedom that is at the same time a trap.
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Read some Pierre Bourdieu on his concept of habitus and its relation to what he calls "structuring structures," "structured structures," and how he defines the movements of "ideology."
Or if you want a more fun(ny) read, try your hand at Slavoj Zizek's first book _The Sublime Object of Ideology_. Follow that up with probably his most important work, _The Parallax View_.
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