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86 Ideology and Utopia
is by no means an illusory experience, for ideology in its relational
c0I!c.~.E~ is not at ,!n.~gL~.!~.~i()~. K"nowl­
~g out of our experience in actual life situations.
though not absolute, is knowledge none the less. The norms
arising out of such actual life situations do not exist in a
social vacuum, but are effective as real sanctions for conduct.
R~:@ti0!1}sI!l_!!gnifi~s merely that all of t~.!:~~E!!.Q!.m~~glng
ill.~ .giy~n,§Uyglia1l-. bave reference .tQ-gmL~~O!lt~!. alld derive
their siKI!iES~!!~.J~E!.. ~h!~_!.~£!P!Qc:~t hHerrelatio.lls~ip
in a given frame of thought. Such a system of meanings is
possible and valid only in a given type of historical existence,
to which, for a time, it furnishes appropriate expression.
When the social situation changes, the system of norms to
.which it had pre.v..iOUSl y . given b.. ir.th ceases to be in .h.a.rID..on..ỵ
\ with it. The s~m.eestrangemeJlt.gges on with reference to
"~~le~gd an