The Myth of Common Sense

We have all heard someone say it. When we are frustrated with the world, someone else’s decision, or a weird news headline, we throw our hands up and exclaim that common sense is dead. But what if common sense was never actually what we thought it was? We often treat common sense as if it is an objective, universal truth—a baseline of human wisdom that everyone should inherently possess. In reality, it is much more like a collection of routine knowledge that we pick up from our culture, our traditions, and our own limited personal experiences. It is comfortable, sure, but it is rarely verified. T

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