Actually, I don't bemoan your ideology. (In fact I suspect I hold the exact same ideology.) I'm just pointing out that we are ideologues. And like all ideologues, our ideology allows us to coexist comfortably with the actual reality we live in. Even though it's highly unlikely that the underlying reality is consistent with our ideology.

This would be true of ALL ideologues. That's my point. In my opinion, nearly every human on Earth, is likely an ideologue. And this model, or analogy, of AR as ideology, is a pretty good representation of that state of affairs.