What is the goal of faking to center? Right and Left, up and down, hot and cold are all real positions. Why do we appear to be so devoted to not making waves that we make nothing at all and are proud of it? I would rather have an opponent tell me that he cannot stand to be in my presence than have him fake a pleasant attitude. Has honesty lost its value?

When you go into a restaurant, you can select items from a menu without having to guess. To be honest with you, I do not know how you do that. My selections are commonly based on price and the result means nothing to me. I am not without a sense of taste. Anything will honestly satisfy me.

Do my pathologically insecure state make me something special to be emulated? Then why do we try so hard to be neutral on so many points? Is it that we’ve brainwashed ourselves so much that we no longer know who we are or is it that we are afraid to be honest about who we are? Stand up philosophers are supposed to be weird. I can tell you that you got the better deal out of this.

In my recent reading, I came across the Hegelian Synthesis. If my understanding of this subject is correct, then it is an easy idea. The idea is to put two opposites into opposition and produce a third way that is a compromise between the two. This compromise position is then one of the two opposites in the next dialectic. It is a horrible idea if you are devoting any part of yourself to a search for truth.

If truth matters to you, then you recognize that there can be no compromise that moves you closer to truth. The compromise is the introduction of falsity into the equation and calling it a positive move. When opposites are combined, the result is the neutralization of both parts. No third way really emerges. You are just selling out your principles in small enough chunks to swallow.

My way of talking about neutrality is that it is the position you take when you cannot admit to the position that you hold. Few of us with a measurable intellect would consciously select the worst of two options. If you wanted to move people toward that pole, for reasons of your own, then you have to avoid producing the feeling of motion. You reason away the foundation of the opposition to your conquest over time until you have victory.

Is that the real reason that we are afraid to admit to the stances that we take? One side knows that the truth is a losing proposition. The other side is afraid to seem unreasonable by standing its ground. A little compromise seems more than reasonable and it serves to keep the peace. Until, that is, the next compromise in the chain.

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