What Is Common Sense?

"Common sense might not be what we think it is. In fact, we might not want to apply it automatically. Use with caution. " 

Common sense is a normal, average, common or ordinary way of thinking, addressing what is commonly understood and/or typically expected by a population of two or more people. Common sense is often mistakenly defined or described as native wit, albeit native wit is a tool we might use to apply common sense. Common sense thinking is a way of thinking or approaching matters that appears to be practical or logical for a particular set of circumstances or to solve a problem.

However, it is not necessarily appropriate or advantageous to practice or to apply or to rely on common sense because the common sense of a population of people can be inaccurate, misguided by misunderstandings, illusions, and/or delusions of 

Common Sense Evolves

and/or perpetrated against the general population. There is value to understand or to be familiar with what is the common sense of the people, e.g. what is common to them, ordinarily understood to be true or considered to be logical and valid. 

"...the Common Core standards initiative in education is an aggressive method designed to cause massive shifts in the common sense of the population for marketing, creating a particular mindset for problem solving and some not-so-nice purposes, perhaps."

Likewise, certain societies or special interest groups teach, train and condition us to have a particular common sense depending on their goals and objectives via advertising,  propaganda, drugs, chemical permeation/poisoning, desensitization and other methods pervasively. For example, the Common Core standards initiative in education is an aggressive method designed to cause massive shifts in the common sense of the population for marketing, creating a particular mindset for problem solving and some not-so-nice purposes, perhaps. Common sense evolves. Therefore, it is beneficial to have "extraordinary sense", as well. ♥

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"What Common Core does is strips the individual of everything that makes them unique..." ~ Glenn Beck