An ethos is internally reconciled between body and heart arising from community dynamics with the mind as observer/recorder. An ideology is a mental construct tending to concentrate power within mind generally detrimental to the body and heart.

In ancient Athens at the foundations of democracy, politics was considered to be ruled by ethics because the body politic was known to be a living macrocosm of the community’s shared ethics.  As above, so below. Today, ethics has been replaced by ideology and along with it has destroyed the restraints upon democracy’s greatest weaknesses, mob rule and the loss of individual rights.