The "golden mean" is dead. Long live Healthy Flexibility!

I am fascinated by the search for the “golden mean” every time I come across this phenomenon. In general, the “golden mean” is a myth. This is something that does not happen to living people. “What happens?” - you ask. Good question. I offer my thoughts.

All adults, I think, know that without day there would be no night, without top - bottom, good - without evil, darkness - without light, etc.

By the way, what could be the “golden mean” HERE? Eternal sunset and sunrise in gray tones?

This means that they know, but sometimes they find it difficult to draw some very logical conclusions. For example, these are simple: without joyful and other “good” feelings, there would be no sad and “bad” feelings, without the answer “no” there would be no answer “yes”, without “I want something” there would be no “ I want something else” (that is, “I don’t want something”).

And therefore, it’s designed that way, and that’s okay. But I’ve already written a lot about this, so I won’t repeat myself, but will write about more complex conclusions. Less obvious.

For example, about these.

Without health there is no disease.

Without separation there are no meetings.

Without the experience of suffering there can be no experience of pleasure.

Without love there is no, and there can be no hatred. And vice versa, of course.

What could it be? Did you guess it? Without love and without hatred you will have a “golden mean”. That is, neither this nor that. Dullness, boredom and nothing human. Explain?

Let me explain.

It's all about the pendulum. Well, like a cuckoo clock, for example. Tick ​​tock. It's rocking. The higher and faster it swings to the right, the higher it swings to the left (let’s assume that the heart is a perpetual motion machine of this pendulum, otherwise there will, of course, be attenuation over time).

But what is important: the pendulum cannot arbitrarily hover in the “golden mean” (that is, take it like this and suddenly stop on its own) or swing sharply twice as weakly in the other direction. Don’t even get your hopes up – that’s what he is, in fact, a pendulum. But there is a chance to “stop swinging” (i.e. live). How it's done? Just.

You take any feeling or desire that you don’t like about yourself, and begin to get rid of it, fight (in our opinion, psychologically, to restrain all manifestations of what you don’t like). Let me explain with an example. Let's say someone got sick or even, unfortunately, died.

Lyrical digression. By the way, I had to. A person dies not because he was sick, but because he lived. Health is his way of adapting to this mortal world. And the better (stronger) his health was, the better his illness will be (it will quickly develop and quickly finish off the person).
You will easily remember such quick deaths. “How is this possible? He was so healthy, he didn’t get sick, and then he died.” Certainly. He was very healthy. When the pendulum swung in the other direction, I became very sick. So I couldn’t stand it. “Not very healthy” people live much longer than healthy people.

So one died. But there is one who remained, and he does not want to suffer, as well as cry, be sad, etc. But he wants not to suffer. He takes the plumb line of the pendulum and from the extreme right position “strong suffering” pulls it down, where he forcibly holds it - in that very “golden mean” - with both hands. Don't let yourself suffer. And - oops! – after a month everything is great. No sadness, no joy.

And after a year or two he says: “life is boring and there is no point.” Naturally. Life can only be lived. What does it mean to “live”? This means feeling everything that life throws at you, living through all your experiences and feelings. You won’t be able to do anything more reasonable in this life.

Because if you don’t live anything at all, then you just have to wait for death, somehow, from time to time, entertaining yourself with something. Almost like waiting in line at the clinic: boring, nothing to do and a long wait. You can read a book, you can draw a picture on glass with your finger, you can call someone and torment him with your boredom. Yes, you yourself know.

You can, of course, do something very productively - raise children, fight for world peace, make laws or write books, giving all these activities different interesting meanings. This doesn't change the essence of the matter. If you don’t live (experience) life, then all the same, neither the process, nor the results, nor the “almost found almost meaning of almost life” will in no way save you. So, they will slightly distract you from standing in line for the next world.

“How can you live when it hurts?” - you may ask. I answer. Deep and as long as you can endure. With satisfaction and anticipation. If it hurts, it means it was once cool. And there will definitely be more.

Believe me, if you feel emotional pain, it means that you once received a lot of good things. Plus, if you can be in a lot of pain, it means that the brightest pleasures of this life are available to you. And if not, then no.

If you look closely, it turns out that any of our manifestations are equal to their opposites, in intensity, in size and scale. “Equal in modulus,” those who became familiar with mathematics at school will say.

And if you have a lot of kindness, then there is just as much malice. If there is a lot of desire to obey, then there is a lot of desire to rule. If there is a lot of courage, then there is a lot of fear. And so on. And that's okay.

It’s just that the second side of the pendulum often turns out to be very reliably hidden in the shadows only because someone once thought it was not normal. In the metaphor of a pendulum, it’s as if the plumb line flew to the left and hung there. That is, he didn’t freeze himself, but someone diligently supports him. Society first, and then the individual himself.

Outwardly, it looks like a frozen smile, which has already turned into a grimace and expresses anything, but not what its owner would like.

If a person is not satisfied with this, then he can go to a psychologist for help and say - it doesn’t matter what exactly, well, let’s say: “I’m too angry, afraid, guilty, ashamed, etc. I, of course, am an educated person, and I know that I can’t get rid of feelings, so let’s look for the Golden Mean - to feel a little bit of everything and to the point.”

In general, he still wants to get rid of it. But in a cunning way. It’s okay, it’s also normal to want to solve everything in the usual way. And the method that I will offer you is not the usual one. He's nasty and difficult. But effective.

And I will suggest, firstly, to admit that there is a second half, polar to the one that you present.

Example: “I’m terribly angry.” Sooner or later you will have to admit that you have a lot of kindness. Secondly, I propose to admit that it is not possible to get rid of one half - either we get rid of both, or we leave both.

Let's say we leave it. How can we live with this? And here, thirdly, I will propose to reconsider the metaphor of the pendulum and take the Y axis as a working model. Where from -10 to 0 is evil, and from 0 to + 10 is good. Introduced? Great.

Now you will have to literally manually research where, when, how and why ALL points from -10 to + 10 are needed. This is not an easy stage. We will have to find out experimentally - with whom, how and what works and what doesn’t. As a result, we get the same “healthy flexibility” stated in the title, or you can also say “the ability to creatively adapt.”

Hooray! You can drink champagne and enjoy both your super-evilness in defending your own interests, and your generosity and unprecedented kindness towards those who are dear to you. And no middle ground.

The most observant may be indignant and say that while it is convenient for me, I refer to the metaphor of an uncontrolled pendulum, and when it is not convenient, I switch to the controlled “Y-axis”?! And so it is.

Until a person realizes that he has a “shadow”, a polarity, this part is repressed into the unconscious.

Externally, it is a pendulum fixed at one of the extreme points on the left or right. If, God forbid, you let go, it will fly uncontrollably - in the opposite direction (say, from the position “I’m on a diet” to the position “I eat like a camel”).

After a couple of such terrifying flights, a person will decide to “look for the golden mean,” that is, he will try to hang on a plumb line so that he will never move anywhere else. Or just a little bit.

If a person realizes that he is different, and that if he has a “day”, then there is also a “night” that is polar to him, then he gets the opportunity to learn to use ALL points of this scale for himself and others for the benefit.

This is where the pendulum ceases to be a pendulum, turning into a completely reasonable scale, on which there is always an internally justified, harmonious movement - simply because there is no point in hanging in one place for a long time.

P.s. Can you guess how it turns out that the more mistakes a person makes in life, the more finds and discoveries he has?

What is the "golden mean"? How to spell this word correctly. Concept and interpretation.

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In this article we will talk about what the golden mean is and how to use it in life.

Few people apply the principle of the golden mean in life. People, as a rule, either do not know at all what a measure is, or, if they do know, they do not apply this principle.

There are also those people who apply the principle of the golden mean in life, but only in some areas. Let’s say this principle can be applied to family, but not to work. Or in relation to relaxing with friends, yes, but in relation to drinking, no.

This principle can be applied in relation to money, for example, in the area of ​​spending money on oneself, but not on children; out of love, parents, for example, can buy them everything that their children do not want, and thereby raise spoiled and capricious children and so on.

It is in this article that the author will describe to you exactly how to gain experience of the golden mean using personal example. The author has had many different experiences. Since a person remembers best when specific examples are given to him, this article will present those experiences of the golden mean that the author acquired in his life.

Golden mean No. 1. Alcohol

There was a period when the author did not drink alcohol because it was “right” and everyone praised him for it. Then the author entered the university, and his environment influenced him. He drank quite a bit, although his body told him more than once that alcohol was poison. Since, when you feel sick every time, your head hurts, your blood pressure rises, then what can we talk about? Then what is the reason why the author continued to drink. Yes, simply because everyone did it. This lasted until the author realized that alcohol was not for him, and if someone drinks, this does not mean that the author should drink too. So the author again
stopped drinking, but only because he himself made a conscious choice. The author tried two extremes and chose what he liked.

The golden mean is only possible if you experience two polarities. In this case, a sober lifestyle is one polarity, and drinking alcohol is another.

First there was a sober lifestyle, because it was “right” and was praised for it, then there was a period of life when the author drank, because everyone did it, then there was a conscious choice not to drink, because the author realized that he didn’t like it , and he should not act like others. Usually people get stuck in one of the polarities, and they are always drawn to another polarity, and they cannot come to harmony, to the golden mean.

Golden mean No. 2. Attention

There was a period when the author was quieter than water, lower than the grass. He was a quiet, shy, self-conscious youth who was afraid of drawing attention to himself. That's how he was raised. This lasted until he entered the university. There, the author did not immediately, but after a certain time, turned from a quiet person into his opposite, on the contrary, he actively attracted attention, and became quite not a quiet person at all. Of course, a lot of people didn't like it and tried to make him stick his head in the sand, but the author didn't back down and it strengthened his spirit.

A few more years passed and the author became quiet again. But there was no embarrassment or embarrassment in him anymore, he was quiet, simply because this was his conscious choice. The author could have become arrogant and attention-grabbing at any moment, but he no longer needed it, he experienced two polarities and again chose the golden mean.

Only after experiencing both polarities can you choose the golden mean, otherwise you simply will not feel where it is, the golden mean.

Golden Mean No. 3. Money

There was a period when the author was very stingy in terms of money. This again lasted until a certain point. There came a period when the author spent money left and right. Over time, the author came back to valuing money and treating it thriftily. But the author no longer spared money if it was necessary to give away a large sum. But at the same time, there are no longer unnecessary and meaningless monetary expenses.

Golden mean No. 4. Girls

There was a period when the author lived in dreams that he needed just one and that only one would be after his heart.

Golden Mean #5: Developing Awareness

There was a period of life when the author did not teach anyone anything, but only learned. Over time, the author began to develop his awareness and consciousness, thousands and thousands of books were read and from them only 10 were singled out, which were closest to the author’s liking, and he re-read them again and again until they became ingrained in his consciousness. Then the author began to read these books to others, repeating the phrases of these books, and this became even more entrenched in the author’s mind.

Then the author realized that he had nothing more to read and the author began to act in accordance with what he read, and saw how by changing himself, he changed the world and the people around him. The book reading phase ended and the action phase began. The stage of teaching people indiscriminately also ended and the stage of teaching or reminding people began Who They Really Are only to those who really wanted it.

There was a stage of lack of self-acceptance, then the author accepted himself, then a stage of rejection of others, then the author accepted others, and the last stage, the author did not accept the fact that his family did not accept him for who he is, and the author also accepted the fact that they did not accept him. The author allowed others not to accept him.

But this became possible due to the fact that the author gained the experience of two polarities.

Every person on Earth does this. The question is whether it is a conscious choice or not. A person is someone else's product or his own.

Conclusions:

• in order to know and feel the golden mean, you need to experience what extremes are;
• The more a person acquires measures in many areas of life, the more he approaches ;
• awareness is the key to everything, including the feeling of the golden mean;
• Over time, a person can feel the golden mean in the most subtle areas of life, and of course this is only available to a conscious person;
• and feel the measure in everything, the soul will always tell you when enough is enough, you just need to hear it.

If the reader has any question, you can always ask it in the comments under this article

Folk wisdom developed over centuries, a rule of behavior or a law of nature? Below I will try to show that this is the same universal law of nature as, say, the law of universal gravitation.

The concept of the golden mean is far from new. Confucius (551...479 BC) and Aristotle (384...322 BC) also wrote about him. Nevertheless, this concept has not yet found wide application in life, which is explained by a number of reasons: the disorder, fragmentation and inconsistency of our knowledge, a large number of misconceptions, as well as the uncertainty of the scope and vagueness of the very formulation of the concept, which states that the truth is usually in the middle. You can often hear: “The rule of the golden mean is wrong. What good is it if there are mediocrities in politics or science, i.e. people with average abilities? Or is the student a mediocre student? However, these examples are unsuccessful. The rule, more precisely, law of the golden mean(ZZS) is not applicable to the degree of perfection, for example, to the measure of evaluation of beauty, intelligence, truthfulness, honesty, diligence, health, justice. The principle “the more the better” applies here. It is also inapplicable to purely geometric parameters, for example, to the middle of Europe, the center of the Earth, etc. ZZS is applicable only to intensity parameters: very little - little - medium - a lot - very much, for example, cold - normal - hot, quiet - normal - loud, low - medium - high (human height), etc. There are a lot of such parameters in the world and therefore the ZZS is quite universal. And the degree of perfection reaches its maximum, as I will show below, precisely at medium intensity parameters. But in order to effectively apply the ZZS, we first need to organize our knowledge, i.e. free from contradictions and make it holistic.

Causes of global crises of our time

At the turn of the 2nd and 3rd millennium, we are forced to admit that our “tree of knowledge” is increasingly branching and splitting into parts isolated from each other. The gaps are growing not only between the natural sciences and the humanities, but also between individual scientific areas within these fields of knowledge. We are witnesses (and participants) of the construction of a new, now scientific, “Tower of Babel” that is leading to a dead end. What is the reason for this situation?

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted at the end of the last century that the 20th century would be a century of revaluation of all values. On the one hand, numerous religious and transcendental worldview systems are gradually losing their persuasiveness under the pressure of science and the facts of real life. On the other hand, fragmented science is not able to propose new moral and ethical standards of life. Outdated religious moral commandments (more precisely: prohibitions) are replaced not by new, scientifically based norms, but by emptiness, vacuum, and immorality. Hence the loss of orientation, uncertainty about the future, the growth of crime and nihilism, life according to the principle “after us there’s a flood.”

But such a transitional state of society cannot last long. Burning global ideological, environmental and energy problems must find their solutions as quickly as possible in a new holistic worldview, otherwise the world will finally be mired in the chaos of the “end of the world.” The real world is integral, all its parts are causally connected, intertwined, therefore knowledge, ideas about this world, reflections of this world must be integral. Man is an integral part of nature and therefore can develop only according to the same laws as nature itself, and not according to laws invented by clergy, politicians or power-hungry madmen. The laws of social development are a continuation of the laws of the evolution of nature, which, however, have not yet been finally identified and formulated (and here, as will be shown below, ZZS can help).

Our knowledge today seems like a boundless ocean that cannot be contained in one head. Or a giant tree with an infinite number of fact leaves. But if we move from the leaves closer to the trunk of the tree of knowledge, we can see that the number of fundamental principles of natural science and the humanities is limited and is quite amenable to analysis. And this analysis reveals the following fundamental contradiction.

Our knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is an arbitrary mixture of contradictory absolute (ideal, unlimited, independent) and relative (comparable, finite, interdependent, i.e. interconnected) ideas. However, the absolute (for example, absolute zero temperature, absolute emptiness, absolutely solid, absolutely black or absolutely transparent body, ideal mirror, ideal converter of one type of energy into another, i.e. perpetual motion machine, etc.) has never been observed and was not found or achieved in experiments. In addition, the absolute contradicts the principle of causality, it breaks cause-and-effect relationships (for example, an absolutely solid body is not deformed at all, there are no traces of influences on it). And if we want to remain grounded in reality, we must admit that the absolute does not exist in the real world (but only in the head, in the imagination, in mathematics). If we trace history from this angle, we can be convinced that in the process of human development, the share of its absolute ideas gradually decreases and is replaced by relative, comparable, causally related, holistic ones. Humanity is gradually, through trial and error, approaching the Truth.

Absolute in natural science

As is known, physics is considered the foundation of natural science. If we analyze the fundamentals of physics for the presence of absolutes, we will find a large number of them there. How to recognize them?

The fact is that ideal objects are characterized by parameters equal to zero or infinity. An absolutely solid body has infinite hardness, an absolutely transparent body has zero absorption of light, an ideal thermal insulator has zero thermal conductivity. Typically, each parameter has its own “antiparameter”: thermal conductivity - thermal resistance, electrical conductivity - electrical resistance, thermal losses - quality factor (for oscillating systems), etc. For ideal objects, one of the pair parameters is equal to zero, and the second is equal to infinity. So, the presence in any theoretical model of at least one parameter equal to zero or infinity is a signal of the need to check it for falsity.

Let's take Einstein's theory of relativity, considered the highest achievement of the human mind. In fact, these are two theories (special and general) that contradict each other. In one, for example, ether is rejected, in the other it is considered necessary. The model of empty space (with zero average density) adopted in the special theory is absolute, as is the absolutely constant and limiting speed of light for moving systems. In the modernized theory of “physical vacuum,” the average density of space remains equal to zero. Dozens of books have been published around the world refuting the theory of relativity (for more details, see the author’s book “The Golden Mean...”).

This theory is the basis for the cosmological model of the Big Bang of our Universe, which also contains absolutes (errors in the foundation of the building of science are multiplying on all floors). One of them: zero time, i.e. the sudden emergence of an expanding universe out of nothing and without any reason. According to this model, the Universe arose by chance, and just as by chance, hundreds of its parameters correspond to the possibility of the existence of life and intelligence in it. Our really existing Universe according to this theory is extremely unlikely, i.e. simply put, impossible!

Due to the emptiness of space, quantum mechanics was forced to invent “statistical” causality, “probability density”, “wave-particle dualism” and other models that do not fit into common sense, especially for the microworld. Therefore, it is still unknown what elementary particles are made of and why they have these particular parameters. And all this was proclaimed a “victory over philistine common sense,” and mathematics with its ideal concepts, and not real practice, became the “guiding star” of physics. One of the side effects: a complete lack of understanding of such physics by non-professionals, which means lack of control and inefficiency in spending billions of dollars.

Absolutes can also include world physical constants (for example, the gravitational constant, the speed of light, the parameters of elementary particles, etc.), which, according to modern ideas of physicists, remain absolutely unchanged for billions of years, which leads, for example, to absurd conclusions in paleoclimatology, for example , hot climate due to the greenhouse effect.

Other branches of natural science adopt the false absolute concepts of physicists and also fall into dead ends. Hundreds of facts have been accumulated in geology proving that the globe is gradually growing in mass and volume and is heating up from the inside, and the lithosphere is fragmenting into smaller and smaller continents, which are moving away from each other. But physicists’ idea of ​​empty space blocks the replacement of the outdated model of continental plate tectonics (with a constant radius of the Earth) with a new model of growth and expansion (expansion) of the globe (since there is “nowhere” for new matter to come from in the bowels of the Earth). And climate warming, caused by the gradual warming of the Earth’s interior, is used by “nuclear” energy producers to eliminate their “coal” competitors who emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, allegedly leading to the greenhouse effect. At the same time, whipping up panic makes it easier to fish money out of taxpayers' pockets.

In biology, the causes and mechanisms of the evolution of living things have not yet been established. Evolution is supposedly random and “purposeless”; Darwinism is contradictory and unconvincing. Under these conditions, the Creator hypothesis receives a second wind. Statistical analysis of open chemical systems with arbitrary composition at the energy level of their interatomic bonds shows that these systems select substances from the environment that gradually reduce their free energy, i.e. stabilize, ultimately bringing them to a temperature of 37°C and the chemical composition of the human body (see the series of publications by the author from 1982 to 1999).

Conscious elimination of the “remnants” of the absolute makes it possible to construct a simple, visible and holistic picture of the world. If we accept that space has the properties of a liquid with very low viscosity and density (an analogue of the quantum liquid of helium-II), then all the structures of the Universe from elementary particles to galaxies and physical fields can be represented in the form of vortices (vortex rings, vortex filaments) of this liquid. In this case, quantum mechanics becomes a branch of hydrodynamics (Madelung showed this possibility back in 1926). Vortex structures in this environment are easily formed and exist for a long time, so they accumulate (P. Dirac). This results in a slow, unidirectional change in physical constants, which is the cause of time.

Evolution (development, self-organization) in this holistic picture of the world can be presented as a continuous process of extinction of unstable and therefore short-lived extremes and approaching a stable golden mean at all levels of organization of the universe, for example. in physics (the most stable elementary particles have average parameters), in chemistry (chemical bonds with average parameters are most common), in biology (average parameters of living organisms are most common, living things tend to an average temperature of 310 K or 37 ° C, etc.

From the history of the absolute in society

As the history of mankind shows, extreme states in society are also unstable and therefore exist for a relatively short time, for example. absolute power of pharaohs, kings, dictators, etc. France even had an era of absolutism under Louis XIV. More “modern” forms of absolute power are called totalitarianism (Nazism in Germany, Bolshevism-Stalinism in the USSR, Maoism in China). In the West, which calls itself democratic, the power of money dominates, with the help of which politicians are manipulated and the “fourth” power – the media – is paid.

Fanaticism or extreme religious conviction is also absolute. There are also scientists who are absolutely convinced that they are right, although the essence of true science is the periodic revision of what has been achieved and the constant search for the Truth.

In the fight against religious dogmatism, which turns a person into a sheep manipulated by an absolute shepherd, the Enlightenment movement began in the 17th century (Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, etc.), which then also grew into extremes (the pendulum of history cannot stop in the middle!). The human mind was absolutized, and the idea of ​​the “almighty conqueror of nature,” including human nature, arose. And not only did the Siberian rivers almost flow back, but also from the “human mass” they began to mold a special “Soviet builder of communism” with distorted ideas about their past and an emasculated national identity. And although these experiments, which cost hundreds of millions of victims, failed, “supermans” persistently continue them in the West in the form of a so-called “multicultural society.”

The postulate of absolute equality of people was the theoretical basis of socialism-communism. The theory of a multicultural society is based on the equality of the rights of citizens of a given country and “human rights,” which means a foreigner (if you look into the future, a multicultural society will sooner or later become monoethnic: the one who reproduces the fastest wins, a recent example is Kosovo, the Turks in Germany they know this too). The resistance of “indigenous” citizens to the dominance of foreigners is suppressed under the guise of the fight against racism, Nazism, etc. At the same time, the rights of peoples to self-determination are somehow ignored. So at the beginning of this year, almost 30% of Austrians suddenly turned out to be “right-wing extremists” and are subject to threats and blackmail from democrats (!) all over Europe. It looks like Russian Germans will have to build socialism once again, this time in a “united Europe.”

The absolutization of the “historical guilt” of the Germans, taken out of the historical context of the bloody “world revolution” approaching from the East, serves to educate submissive people who are ready to pay ever new, growing billions of dollars in “compensation”, although the victims of Nazism have almost died out. It turns out that the guilt of the criminal and the suffering of the victim can be inherited, from generation to generation! And the significantly larger number of victims of Bolshevism-communism did not even receive moral compensation. This “policy” is fraught with new explosions.

Absolutization of personal freedom (liberalism) leads to selfishness and individualism and weakens feelings of solidarity and mutual assistance. The absolutization of economic freedom (neoliberalism) leads to the emergence of transnational octopus corporations, whose financial power exceeds the power of governments in a given territory, to the collapse of national states, to the so-called globalization, the goal of which is world domination by a handful of bankers. Today, about 300 multi-billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity!

Unlimited “free love” devalues ​​the relationship between a man and a woman. Today, the “pioneers of the sexual revolution” (USA, Sweden) have already realized that love, fidelity and family are more beautiful and stable than limitless (animal!) sexual freedom. For some reason, everyone is surprised why the number of rapes, especially of children, is growing in the West. This is the price of sexual freedom. Accomplices in this crime are “progressive” television moderators, who diligently destroy the latest sex taboos and expose shy (well-mannered!) people to ridicule.

About a holistic and objective policy

There is a holistic medicine that views the patient not as a “moving stomach”, “walking heart” or “pill swallowing device”, but as a whole person, since all his organs are interconnected and influence each other. There is also a holistic worldview (holistics), which explores the world as a whole. Politics has not yet reached this stage of development.

There are many “narrowly specialized” political parties in the world. Liberals fight for freedom, socialists fight for equality, greens fight for the preservation of the environment. Some parties fight for the preservation of their nation, others - for the religious structure of society, for monarchy, anarchy, etc. There are parties of motorists, beer lovers, pensioners, etc., etc.

But at the center of politics should be a person who wants to be both free and equal, to live in a clean and safe environment, to have a secure future for himself and his children. “Man is the measure of everything,” said Protagoras 450 BC. The goal of politics should be to simultaneously satisfy all the material and spiritual needs of a person; the policy should be holistic. But this is not enough, it must also be objective.

Political scientist Philip Tetlock from the University of Ohio (USA) has been collecting forecasts from political experts about upcoming political events for many years. After analyzing the forecasts, it turned out that they were confirmed in approximately 51% of cases. According to probability theory, confirmation for random events would be exactly 50%. So the foresight power of well-paid experts is practically no higher than that of... a tossed coin!

But this is not a manifestation of the stupidity of experts, but a characteristic of the chaos, unpredictability, and subjectivity of politics. Who can explain the essence of Mikhail Gorbachev’s “new thinking”? Or Helmut Kohl's "geistig-moralische Wende"? Or "Ruck durch Deutschland" by Roman Herzog. Or the difference between Kohl’s “old” middle and Schroeder’s “new middle”? These are all unanswered questions. How to free yourself from subjectivity in politics?

The one-dimensional political scheme of “right-left” is long outdated and leads to confusion and subjectivity. Designations such as right or left liberal, right or left patriot, social democrat, etc. can be represented as combinations of the three political dimensions or parameters discussed below (just as any color is a combination of three primary colors). Each politician (or citizen) can be represented in this three-dimensional political space as a point. Parties consist of factions, wings, etc. and form “clouds” of points of their members.

Three-dimensional political space

The first dimension reflects human freedom, which extends from zero (slavery, totalitarianism) to 100% (anarchy). As a first approximation, we can distinguish five levels of human freedom:

1. I renounce my own interests and devote my life to God, the Tsar, my dear CPSU, Hitler, etc.
2. I have rights and desires, but I limit them, because the interests of my master, my party, my state are more important.
3. My personal interests are no less important than the interests of society.
4. My pleasures are the most important to me, but unfortunately I have to work and pay taxes.
5. I am the highest value for myself, my pleasures are the most important for me, no matter at whose expense.

Obviously, society is most stable with 50% freedom, i.e. when the freedom of citizens is balanced by their sense of responsibility, i.e. conscious self-limitation of one’s freedom in the interests of society, which corresponds to the third stage.

The second, national dimension extends from extreme national masochism or inferiority complex (0%) to extreme, hypertrophied nationalism (100%). According to the five-step scheme we have adopted, it looks like this:

1. We Germans are not the salt of the earth, our history shows that we are potential criminals, the sooner Germany disappears from the face of the Earth, the better.
2. Foreigners are usually better than us Germans, we should accept them for who they are.
3. We Germans are no worse, but not better than other peoples. Everyone has had dark and light times in their history. The German people also have the right to self-determination.
4. We Germans are smarter, more hardworking, more punctual, and more democratic than other peoples.
5. We Germans are the best in all respects. Other nations must obey us.

The stable middle - the third stage - corresponds to the balance between self-respect and respect for other nations and peoples and can be called healthy patriotism.

The third dimension, social (poor - rich) describes the degree of evenness in the distribution of wealth. Equal distribution (socialism) destroys the incentive to work conscientiously and therefore has no future (proof: the collapse of the “socialist camp”). Extremely uneven distribution, when a multi-billionaire is millions of times richer than a poor person (capitalism) is also unstable, since it violates the fair labor principle:

1. Poor people of all countries unite to rob the rich of their wealth.
2. Even though we don't earn much, we pay more taxes than the rich.
3. Those who work hard and honestly should live prosperously. To each according to his work.
4. You need to become rich by any means, then you will have everything.
5. We rich people own everything in this world. With our money we will buy everything, including power.

And here the third step is also the most reasonable. Human abilities are limited (like everything in this world!) and vary only 5...10 times. This means that billions cannot be earned, but only appropriated. This injustice can be eliminated not by a new proletarian revolution, but by introducing an upper income limit through a scientifically based (and not based on the intuition of politicians, as now) tax system (details in the author’s mentioned book). At the same time, other laws that contradict the principle of labor must be repealed: interest on lending money, as well as private ownership of land and minerals. Money should not multiply during storage, but “grow old”, “dry out”, like any products of which they are equivalents. The foundations of such a reform were developed at the beginning of the 20th century by the Swiss economist Silvio Gesell. These measures will radically improve the moral atmosphere in society.

The goal of a holistic policy is to formulate and implement laws under which society would be as close as possible to the average state simultaneously along all three named political dimensions (in the future, additional dimensions can be introduced, if necessary, for example, environmental). The objective middle is always a dynamic balance of opposites.

We must abandon primitive black and white binary either/or thinking and move towards a ternary balance of opposites: left-middle-right. Not “either competition or solidarity” according to Kropotkin, but “both competition and solidarity.” Not the Bolshevik “who is not with us is against us,” but “for normalization and a reasonable balance of interests.” The path to a “bright future” lies between the Scylla of absolute equality (socialism) and the Charybdis of absolute inequality (capitalism), between extreme nationalism and multiculturalism, between totalitarian unfreedom and unbridled anarchy, in approaching the peak of rationality, beauty and justice, to the golden mean !

The main philosophical movements: materialism (matter is primary, consciousness is secondary, being determines consciousness) and idealism (spirit is primary, matter is secondary, spirit determines being) are two sides (extremes) of the same “coin” - a holistic philosophy, the essence of which can be visually depicted in the form ring “being determines consciousness, and consciousness in turn determines being.”

Numerous moral and ethical standards arose and developed from people’s desire for a stable, i.e. fair life. Holistic ethics rejects any absolutizations such as religious commandments (unlimited: goodness, self-sacrifice, obedience, tolerance, etc.) and the mythical “original sin” and sets as its goal the prosperity of all humanity on the basis of balanced moral standards based on common sense.

In conclusion, it should be emphasized that the outlined strategy of the golden mean can become an effective tool in the fight against extremist forces thirsting for world domination.

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Golden mean

Where did it come from and what does the expression mean? golden mean? And why middle, actually, golden?

Expression golden mean belongs to the category of intuitive. And the logic of its appearance can be easily traced. Adjective gold, golden in all languages ​​is a synonym for something good, positive, pleasant, correct, desirable... This means golden mean, this is like the right middle, the desired middle. What is the middle? The middle is a place equidistant from both extreme points of something, be it a measurable object or an abstract concept. The middle is where opposing forces are balanced, where no extreme decision or point of view outweighs the other. If we talk, for example, about such abstract concepts as “decision”, “action”, then the concept of the golden mean is in harmony with the phrases “balanced decision”, “balanced action”...

In general, the golden mean is what allows you to avoid extreme and risky steps. Often the golden mean is golden because it is the only correct one in a particular situation.

People who prefer extremes golden mean characterized as cautious, indecisive, not prone to conflicts or adventures.

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