Crazy Musings

THE LAST DAYS OF COMMON SENSE

Beside the fact that its unrepentantly common place, plentiful and by implication of a diminished value–which is Just as it should be–common sense is of little or no use to mankind in today’s world.

Common sense, AKA conventional wisdom, AKA popular opinion should however not completely be ridiculed or scoffed at, having previously served humanity so dutifully and extensively, but I say it’s perfectly okay if it be thrown out to the dogs or the Bonobo Monkey or to zombies. And no, not ‘thrown out’ to be discarded like a woman’s monthly rag, used and fetid with our noses turned up, but graciously bequeathed or handed down -with or without a dose of condescension to any of our closest quad pedal kin who I expect should find it extremely useful in the interim.

Common sense probably had its first very public humiliation when huge ships made with all kind of metals stayed afloat on water instead of dutifully sinking as expected. It was thereafter thrown under the bus, but then somehow managed to survive, when the wright brothers went up the sky and did not instantly fall to the ground. Common sense then finally lost all of its respect, in the first quarter of the twentieth century when folks began to question everything and anything with extremely irritating fervour, sometimes just for the hell of it. Nothing was spared this intrusion. It sometimes became quite nasty and distasteful but they got away with most of it, in effect providing plenty of interesting results, overturning time honoured logic on its head and forever upsetting several established orders.

Today, Several decades later, common sense has remained with us and has quite strangely continued to thrive amongst the offspring of the Wright brothers, Charles Barbage and Nikola Tesla the relationship though has not been without some disruptive patterns and even complete disaffection. Such that despite stinking up our noses every now and again, grumpy old common sense continues to live with us, just because it gave us so many of our most treasured intangibles, like language, culture, art and of course our beloved religions and everything else that comes with it, especially peace and progress.

But I say again, common sense should be thrown out once and for all. In its place we can easily embrace “nonsense”, which is certainly a lot less pretentious and patronizing as its predecessor. For common sense, where ever and when ever it is used, is anything but common – its frontiers to this day remain rigidly defined and closely guarded by a mafia like cabal.

The future reign of nonsense, AKA thinking outside the box, AKA paradigm shift, promises to hold out its arms to all. Every idea would be welcome to the party if it’s comfortable with dancing or sharing the floor with a big question mark.