"Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture"
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The line carries the fingerprints of a playwright who made his career staging the politics everyone else tried to treat as mere background noise. Fo’s theater - especially in works like Accidental Death of an Anarchist - thrives on the idea that power doesn’t just operate through laws and police batons, but through language, jokes, common sense, and the stories a society repeats until they feel natural. Calling ideology “inherent” is a direct challenge to the cultural gatekeepers who want art to be “universal” (read: safely nonthreatening) while their own values quietly set the rules of what counts as tasteful, realistic, or respectable.
The subtext is a warning disguised as a clarification: if you think ideology only belongs to extremists, you’ve already been recruited by the dominant one. Fo isn’t romanticizing ideology; he’s demystifying it. Culture isn’t a neutral container that politics contaminates. Culture is one of politics’ favorite delivery systems, and theater - live, communal, hard to fully control - is where that becomes easiest to see.
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"Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/although-this-is-often-used-with-negative-56931/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
