Why doesn’t Ben stick to the topics he knows something about, like his dogs and his meds and his neuroses and his rich pals’ hospitality and his fear of growing old and his guilt about being rich himself, and etc..........
Now, in 1978 he wrote an absolutely first rate book about venality and leftwing hypocrisy in Hollywood called “The View from Sunset Boulevard”. Of course, that was an update IMO of Eugene Lyon’s classic “The Red Decade” (1940).
Ben was a superb muckraker once, but wealth and ease have left him a changed man. His idelogy changed, too, like so many who attain affluence and think it was just pure luck and they don’t really deserve it and skew leftward to assuage their guilt.
That’s “ideology”. Geez...........
I guess “idelogy” would be the study of events which occur around the middle of March.