Uncommon Common Sense

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November 7, 2008

I just commented on Niki's blog post "Is Obama a Communist or a Communitarian?" (may not be visible for a while), and I thought it was a more general statement that I would like to share here.

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would obliged them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." - Russian author, Leo Tolstoy

I believe that perfectly describes most of the well known writers. There is a natural desire to be heard. After all, that is the purpose. The problem is that this desire easily overrides, suppresses, or causes ignorance of common sense.

"Common sense is very uncommon.  Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of education.  Common sense is instinct, and enough is genius.  Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense:  no one thinks he need more of it than he already has.  Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." - Rudyard Kipling

Common sense has no intrinsic knowledge or understanding of its own. It acts as a prompt to acquire the appropriate knowledge, to understand it correctly, and to make wise application to a particular problem. Now. What do we do in view of the evidence that this crucial function has broken down? My research clearly shows that the key words which explain the phenomenon in the order of its progression are: complaisance, complicity, deception, ignorance, stupidity and foolishness. These are the ingredients of the classical tragedy which repeats over and over again and fills the annuls of our history.

A democratically elected leader is almost certain to be the worst possible choice because he must appeal to an electorate which typically suppresses common sense in favor of selfish interest. Self interest is a good thing when directed toward self sufficiency, but destructive when it works against the interest of others. Democracy forces the will of the majority and acts against the interest of the minority. The founding fathers understood this well and drafted a constitution which isolated the people from direct election of senators and the president. We became a democracy with the constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of senators, and now we hear people calling for direct election of the president. Marxists know that democracy leads to socialism, and thats what we are rapidly becoming.

Bobby Garner is a researcher on the phenomenon of One-Worldism with an emphasis on the methods and techniques employed in it's attendant deception. He may be reached via E-mail from his Website at www.congregator.net. He welcomes your comments. This article may be posted in it's entirety on any website provided this statement remains attached.