Those who know that this is the acceptance of alienation will now know that all ideals and causes are 'ideologies'. An ideology is a system of false consciousness in which you no longer function as the subject in your relation to the world.
Ideology is upside down theory.
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.