Why Did Common Sense Die ?

The Daily Dose of Reason ^ | June 19, 2018 | Dr. Michael J Hurd

[bankwalker]

common sense starts in the Bible ...

[yarddog]

I have a friend who calls it “walking around sense”.

[Sequoyah101]

Did not read but may. I have a summer hire here on the farm as a favor to his dad to try to teach him a little about how to work and hopefully to think. He works OK but only with simple directions for a simple task. If you expect reason and to hear beyond the second or last sentence he hears the mission is going to be a failure.

It looks to me like children who become new young adults are being taught what to know and what to think but not one bit about how to think. To know and link the building blocks of knowledge in a new way to solve a new problem or create a new something is far far away from what I am seeing.

Common sense? I did not think it would be possible to paint a fuel tank green and yet still have it come out looking like a patchwork quilt because the painter did not know enough to blend the brush strokes. It looks good from 100 feet away.

[lee martell]

Frivolous lawsuits, torts and free, anonymous online smearing.

[fidelis]

"It’s not so much that people consciously reject reason as they gradually replace reason with something else. What’s the “something else”? The only alternative to reason is unreasoned emotion. Feelings — divorced from reason. There’s nothing inherently wrong or bad about feelings. As a psychotherapist, I’m the first one to acknowledge that. But just as it’s wrong to reject feelings, it’s equally wrong to use feelings as your primary or sole tool of knowing what’s true. Today, more and more people do that. Hence the dawning of the age of The Snowflake. A rational person feels things. But before blurting out his feelings, or accepting a feeling as automatically valid and true, a rational person stops to think and consider. It’s the stopping, thinking and considering that’s so lacking today..."

Bingo. It's almost impossible to have a serious conversation or a friendly debate today without it quickly degenerating into seething mass of "But I feel..." and thin-skinned defensive lashing out and name calling.

[Uncle Sham]

It died when everything was reduced to a television sound bite.

[The Toll]

Common sense is for nations whose people have something common. It has no place here.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmark.

[dfwgator]

Hippies.

[Newbomb Turk]

Reminds me of the song line "she looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate".

Common sense is definitely learned and earned in the farm. Teach the lad to be careful where you put your fingers.

[txnativegop]

ditto

[Boiler Plate]

My Wood Shop Teacher Mr Koons always said

Common sense is very uncommon

Of course the way he said was more like

Cummin cents is vary uncummin

[frog in a pot]

He works OK but only with simple directions for a simple task.

You have commenced a very generous but challenging undertaking. It sounds like the relationship is begining with at least a bit of traction and you no doubt have a plan.

The fact his dad is a friend suggests you will want to proceed carefully and be able to report good results by the end of summer.

Big challenge and I wish you the best.

[Ransomed]

It corresponded with the rise of smartphones and social media. Maybe expanding ‘social’ interactions between people beyond what we developed with was simply beyond our abilities and is causing this draining of common sense. Seems like there are a heck of a lot of folks who look at screens more than the do at the actual living faces of their friends and family. I think there is a lot of alienation going on that isn’t healthy spiritually.

Freegards

[donna]

If you want common sense, you need a family structure with a man at the head.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Because it is not as potent a drug as emotion, especially emotion run wild. In a society that thrives on and is encouraged to thrive on sensation. Simple answer.

[JudyinCanada]

There is smart and there is wise. Many do not have wisdom because the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

[Dick Bachert]

It didn't DIE. It - along with critical thinking - was MURDERED BY THIS GUY AND HIS BUDS!

I believe it was Dr. Gary North who, years ago, coined a phrase to describe the activities of the Frankfurt and Fabian Socialists when he declared "When the socialists came to take over American, they sought to CAPTURE THE ROBES." The judiciary, the academics, the clergy and others who then (or in earlier times) wore ROPES or similar vestments as symbols of their authority or station. While they went for journalism (adult opinion molders - and Columbia, where the Frankfurt School agents landed in1935 - was a major target) they went after what used to be called “Normal Schools”, the colleges and universities specializing in TEACHING THE TEACHERS. They were spectacularly successful as every TEACHER sent forth carrying the Marxist virus infected THOUSANDS of young people in a decades long career. Can you say "exponential growth"? They were wildly successful and we have a generations long fight on our hands - if fight we will - to turn them back. And you have only to watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. or read the NYT, WAPO, etc. to see the results in that arena. Former FBI Agent (back when - putting aside a self-serving J. Edgar Hoover - the tops of such agencies had not yet been infiltrated with leftist traitors) Larry Grathwohl's 2 1/2 minute testimony concerning the destination these Cultural Marxists have in mind.

Load Grathwohl into YouTube search!

[headstamp 2]

Its like the “raw materials” aren’t there anymore. If you know what I mean.