[Civ V] Rise to Power - (Gameplay) Spirit Ideology

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Requires Rise to Power - (Core) Utilities
Requires Rise to Power (UI) Social Policy Screen
Some features require the Community Patch
Spirit is a new Ideology.

It can only be chosen after you have already adopted one of the three main Ideologies. With Spirit, you are able to retain any Ideological Tenets you had previously taken whilst also unlocking a set of new Ideological Tenets.* The more Tenets you have from your previous Ideology, however, the less space you have for Spirit-based Tenets.

You can adopt Spirit through the 'Reform Ideology' button in the Ideological Tenets panel in the Social Policy Screen.

*This is only true when using the Community Patch. Otherwise, you will receive one free Ideological Tenet for every one that you had before reforming to Spirit.

With the Community Patch, those adopting Spirit are able to retain their original Ideological Tenets

Additional Changes

With Ideological Values, Spirit is renamed to Nationalism.

Further Information

This mod will not function correctly with mods that add new Ideologies or Ideological Tenets. This does not apply to mods that belong to the 'Rise to Power' family of mods, but does include mods created by me that do not belong to that family.

Background Information 

The 'end of history' is basically the phrase that signifies everything I disdain about modernism - the conviction that history is an accumulative process and that we, now, are uniquely positioned in that history such that its natural laws no longer apply. Specifically, the 'end of history' refers to the apparent triumph of liberal democracy at the end of the Cold War over its greatest foe: communism, and supposedly with this triumph the consolidation of all human ideology into a universal consensus that liberal democracy is the only ideology worth adhering to. It shows a shocking lack of nuance and a lack of appreciation for the complexity of socio-political reality and history (whether you see it as progressive or not). And as should come to no surprise, its the phrase that Civ follows almost to the letter through its Ideology and Cultural Victory system.

But history did not end and historical change has not swept across the earth in the manner of a nourishing liberal rain. Nationalism, in particular, has been bubbling beneath the surface of the great ideological clashes for over a century; it was a part of communist and fascist ideology just as much as it is a part of liberal ideology, and, now more than ever, the apparenthood that nationalism continues to pervade human history is revealing itself more and more.

Enter the Spirit Ideology, which, contrary to what people seem to regularly mistake for a religious ideology, represents the outgrowth of nationalism as a concerted rejection of universalizing and globalizing ideologies - particularly liberalism - and a re-focus inward toward one's more immediate sense of identity; what can be religious or secular, conservative or liberal. This adds something of the next phase that we are seeing unfold today (emphasis on the 'seeing'), and continues Civ's historical mimicry past the end of the Cold War and into the 21st century.