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Common Sense
Good sound practical sense in everyday matters;
general sagacity. Oxford Dictionary
Something rarely practiced individually and almost unheard
of in collective decision making. Emotions, feelings, passions and beliefs – in short ‘self’ interest – always
over-ride any possibility of common sense operating.
When ‘push comes to shove’ the veneer of moral and
ethical restraint is wont to collapse in the face of surging instinctual passions, particularly evidenced in the horror
of war time or whenever ‘law and order’ breaks down. Further, these same feelings and passions are the very cause of
wars as they are inevitably fought for honour, pride, justice, ‘rights’, retribution and love.
On an individual level, given that the base feelings are malice and sorrow
(anger, resentment, hate, sadness, depression, melancholy, loneliness, etc.), we desperately seek relief in the ‘good’
feelings (love, trust, compassion, ‘togetherness’, friendship, etc.). Thus one is forever a victim of one’s
feelings, forever in a battle, forever in confusion, forever needing to be vigilant, forever trying to be good. This
constant flow of emotion-based thoughts actively conspires and prevents any possibility of common sense operating in the
human brain. The circuits are literally jammed almost all of the time, swamped by the emotion-based thoughts of a
fictitious alien entity fashioned upon the instinctual primitive self ‘wired in’ by Blind Nature.
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