Let's consider an ideology shared left and right in modern times and one that has had profound influence on the West, namely, individualism. Its basic, axiomatic belief is the individual is the basic unit of society, rather than the family. This belief forces the illogical postulation of a social contract to account for man's existence in society. Hobbes, for instance, saw the individual in nature as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, and invented leviathan to unite individuals in society. Rousseau and Locke saw it in terms of individuals giving up certain rights to join in civil society. These theories, in short, have no anthropological basis. They are mere inventions created to support an ideology. But these theories undermine the existing ordered liberty of man by nature joined in society in a hierarchy of family, religion, and community.