I think we tend to attach our egos to our ideas too much. We claim ideas (and ideologies) as “ours” and as such, we define ourselves as those ideas, and we get offended if someone challenges or criticizes them. In reality, ideas are just “out there,” like a field where you can pick yours, or radio stations that you can tune in and out of, or like love, or God. None of those are anybody’s, yet they’re everybody’s. They are also not static. Like life itself, those concepts and the meanings assigned to those words evolve and change over time, according to the culture, environment and circumstances.