An ideoplex is my word for a cluster of ideas, ideals, identities and institutions that together make up a way of grasping the world. New ones tend to look like cults, because they question what everyone else treats as unquestionable.
How the word moved
I coined it in May 2022, in an essay with the modest title A cult of my own. That's the only place it appears.
In my words
"Unfortunately, many (all?) genuinely new and important ideoplexes (my term for a cluster of ideas, ideals, identities and institutions that constitute a way of ..."
from A cult of my own, 27 May 2022
Related
- Related Openings - the two were written a month apart.
Still open
I used the word in one essay, tucked inside a parenthesis, and haven't come back to it.