A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.

“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often,” he grinned and pushed at her belly, “expressed in curves.”

People in the streets, that’s the only thing governments are afraid of. Well, or term limits. Or free elections! Or assassination. Or being laughed at, ah, ha-ha-ha!