Do you remember common sense? That people just kinda know stuff. What’s right and what’s wrong.
Do you remember Common Sense? The document by Thomas Paine that was a precursor to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution?
The first thing is something we think everybody we agree with has, and everybody we disagree with doesn’t have.
The second thing basically said government is a necessary evil.
This episode is about the first thing, and inspired by an exchange I had with a much younger person at the Tractor Supply.
We were talking about how common property is often left in disarray or even damaged. I made a comment about trying to leave common property the way I found it so that the next person found it the same way I did. The kid replied that it was just common sense to do so.
Common Sense.
Common. Meaning both frequent and public.
Sense. To perceive through the human body and mind.
This all makes me wonder where such a thing exists at all. Or whether it exists everywhere.
Perceptions of reality that everyone shares.
Certainly such a thing exists.
It’s just that we’ve lost it.
We all sense things. But our nervous systems are very different. We each put our unique ‘spin’ on our observations and call them truth.
Isn’t this what’s happening in politics? Isn’t this how we got to where we are.
What happened to the common part. Why don’t we share things anymore?
Shouldn’t we be trying to rediscover the common sense. The universal values. The shared part of the world.