Rahvin writes:
The perpetuation of the Golden Mean fallacy in the American consciousness has probably been one of the greatest disservices in the nation's history.
The Golden Mean fallacy, of course, is the suggestion that the truth always lies "in the middle" of any two views.
The average American thinks that the solution to any ideological question is halfway between the two positions proposed.
This Golden Mean fallacy appears to me more related to Hegel's Dialectic, where the contradiction of opposing viewpoints is debated and resolved to a 'higher understanding' through compromise, than any uniquely American philosophy.
As if one could resolve a flat earth with the observed oblate spheroid. Resolve it to what? a fat pancake earth?
No wonder Schopenhauer was pissed off, and he was just the first of many to hold this BS in contempt. Some things are simply true despite that easily manipulated public opinion.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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