COMMON SENSE is the basic wisdom that comes from everyday encounters with reality. You don’t have to be super-smart to have common sense. You just have to live in the real world, not a make-believe world.

Not many people today have common sense. The smarter someone is, the less likely he is to have it. Schools have destroyed common sense. Television propaganda has destroyed it. Myth and lies presented as “history” have destroyed it. Movies and spectacles have immersed people in make-believe, drenched them with illusions. In a totalitarian society such as ours, people have to abandon the truth just to survive and put food on the table. The lie is all.

The belief that truth is subjective and that objective reality doesn’t even exist has also so softened the cognitive faculties that sense cannot penetrate. The windows are shut. The blinds are drawn. The mind is darkened and dormant. No one’s home.

Common sense is now uncommon.

Sadly, you cannot talk much with people who lack common sense. It’s a dead end.

A parent who suddenly begins to call his son by a girl’s name and pretends his son is a girl has lost common sense. You cannot talk — I mean, really talk about important things — with him. He has stepped out the door and left reality.

A person who sincerely believes that politicians or government agencies can control the vast forces of the weather has lost common sense. It’s as if he has never observed the rain or sun or wind. You cannot talk to such a person in the way you would talk to someone who is sane. You can only humor him.

A person who believes a boy can marry a boy has lost common sense. What can such a person know about the fundamental instincts of human nature and basic social bonds? What is there to say?

A person who believes a mother staying home to take care of her household or children is not “working” has lost common sense. He knows nothing about everyday, normal phenomena. He is out of touch.

A person who believes that scientists in laboratories can, in god-like fashion, instantly come up with a cure for an alleged virus (wink, wink) that is a variant of the most common and stubborn sickness on earth has lost common sense. It’s as if he has never observed illness. Such a person may drag you down into a vortex of lunacy. Reason is of no avail.

A person who believes everything he is told by “experts” with fancy credentials has definitely lost common sense. You can like such a person. But sooner or later the lack of common sense is a killjoy and conversation-stopper.

Social life depends on the truth of things.

— Comments —

Barbara writes:

Another example that I daily encounter is people wearing masks, whether in the neighborhood, stores, or just going about my day.

What’s so disappointing is that some of these people, if they were not mentally ill, are people I may have enjoyed becoming better acquainted with. But once I see that mask I have to write them off. So for the sane there is an increasing sense of isolation.

Yesterday I was at the library and had a question for the male librarian. He turned around to speak to me and was sporting two masks and surgical gloves. A librarian.

Laura writes:

Truly, librarians are some of the most fanatical Covid Commies. They are proceduralists who flourish in a world of rigid rules and therefore they would naturally welcome governmental overreach and, preferably, brutal tyranny. They’re bureaucrats (with many exceptions), not lovers of wisdom. They’re a good example of how “smart” people can lack touch with reality. I guarantee you the American gulags will be staffed in part with former librarians who will take immense pleasure in “reforming” the rule-breakers.

There is good news at our local library though. They took away the plastic barriers at the front desk. It doesn’t look like a pawn shop in North Philadelphia anymore. I am truly surprised they took this daring step, what with human respiration being what it is.

I said, “Oh, goody. The plastic is gone!”

I think she smiled behind her mask.

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