Common Sense is dead - R.I.P., page 1

reply to post by tauristercus

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This is true, R.I.P. common sense for you shall never be resurrected as the world has gone mad.

reply to post by tauristercus

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Oh, that golden age, when common sense flourished & life was better... er, no. In fact there has never been anything more scarce than good sense. What is most often described as "common sense" is in reality a combination of prejudice, unexamined received opinion & somebody else's agenda couched in terms that fit with the aforementioned prejudice, all rounded out with unconscious tradition, which when scrutinised is also often at least partly counter-productive. As more of us have become better educated, the more good sense there is. We can see this because we have the leisure time to find out what life was like, is like & compare, then get online for a good whinge. Life is indisputedly better than it was.
Personally, I feel fortunate that I didn't get inculcated into the common sense that allowed such things as the Cuban Missile Crisis or WW2 for instance. We've got a long way to go, but we'll never get there if we rely on the misnomer "common sense" to guide our future destiny.

reply to post by SANTA CLAWS

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health reform hasn't even been implemented yet??

the VA hospitals have been like this for a long time. kind of the reason for health care reform.......................................(every one a finger press)

Common decency, common respect, common sense, common knowledge - uncommon commodities.

A stolen item that changes many hands, is still a stolen item.

Notice these pages for a start:

infohost.nmt.edu...

The Death of Common Sense
By Lori Borgman

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Note from Lori Borgman: This piece was first published March 15, 1998 in the Indianapolis Star. It has been "modified" and "edited" by others and circulated on the Internet, even sent to me several times. Imagine my surprise to see it attributed to some guy named Anonymous. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I take having my work circulated on the web as a compliment.

A blogger gave attribution - why can't ATS? annewhitfield.blogspot.com...

And the pictures? Who took the picture? I don't know the answer to that but this page looks suspisciously identical and the poster 'implies' they are his or her pictures. (They very well may have been 'borrowed without attribution" as well. I haven't dug that deep.) www.baconbabble.com...

So in the names of common decency, common respect, common sense and common knowledge - I submit at least the author's name Lori Borgman. www.loriborgman.com...

[edit on 11/4/2010 by Trexter Ziam]

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