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"somebody who gets out and tells everybody that he's the greatest would still be "allowed" to earn reputation that way" Golden age fallacy? Off the top of my head, here are few people who fit that description in various ways and who seem to be doing quite well, despite today's "softer world": Donald Trump, Kanye West, Peter Thiel Also, softer world? He faced constant death threats. Also: "Almost as quickly as Ali had…
> Golden age fallacy? I take offense to the idea of the "golden age fallacy". Let's constrain fallacies to actual logical mistakes. Some things actually have had a golden age -- e.g. for bebop it can be fairly accurately be told to be certain decades, and it's not wrong to point to that to say that things are not the same anymore. (And even if individual outliers might produce an X equivalent to a "golden era of X" a…
That doesn't mean it's false.
> Roman democracy the golden age was so and so centuries -- no ifs and buts about it
Historiography is always changing.