Insanity Rules
Here’s a question that used to never be necessary to ask: What happened to common sense?
Merriam-Webster defines it as: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.
Common sense is the ability to exercise logical judgment. It is generally the most obvious and practical course of action that most reasonable people would take in any given situation.
Common sense does not require specialized training, but rather involves practical knowledge that most adults possess. Having common sense allows all human beings to successfully function in the normal circumstances encountered in everyday life.
Common sense is not political, ethnic, gender-based or in any way reserved for a particular type of individual or group. It’s free and easily available to all. Formal education is not required.
We don’t build campfires in the middle of the living room floor. We don’t drive our vehicles on the wrong side of the 4-lane highway into oncoming traffic. We don’t expect an infant to take care of itself. We try to use the hammer to hit the nail and not a thumb. Etc.
I read a recent article in Psychology Today where the author was attempting to show the difference between reality and truth. His premise was that truth changes faster than reality and that in modern times truth is accelerating making a wider gap between the two.
I guess if you are an academic you can get away with such meaningless hogwash, but the facts remain the same. Truth dictates reality, period. It is not separate from reality. And reality is what we use for common sense.
One of the current issues supporting insanity is the whole gender identity debacle. At the birth of a child we know whether it’s a boy or a girl. Regardless of contrary rhetoric, no one can change that reality.
On this issue of common sense I’m not arguing that anyone who wants to think differently is not free to do so. But if that man thinks he’s a woman – and vice versa – doesn’t mean I need to. I’ll use my common sense, thank you. Taking it further and allow transgender women – born male – to compete with women in sports is not only not fair, but also not common sense. Those who would tell us that men can be women are asking us to ignore reality. Ignoring reality is a trait of insanity.
Here are a few additional examples of not using common sense:
We see the videos and look and the numbers – our southern border is not secure.
Parents are not domestic terrorists.
All Caucasians are not racists.
White police do not kill suspects based on race.
White supremacy is not a terrorist threat in the US.
De-funding the police will not reduce crime.
Making America first by our leaders’ actions and words are not ‘extremist.’ No, it’s expected.
Reality became apparent in the early months of the COVID outbreak. Seniors were at risk, children were not. The numbers, ergo the science said so. Lockdowns made no sense.
Children learn nothing useful or understandable by attending a drag show.
Somebody is accountable for the high percentage of our children who currently can neither read nor perform basic math. With the money spent on education, common sense would suggest high achievement experiences.
Charging the batteries of electric cars with electricity generated by fossil fuels is not common sense if the objective is to eliminate fossil fuels.
Your skin color or gender does not qualify you for a job. That’s not reality and it’s not common sense.
“Reparations” paid to descendants by descendants does not make sense. Who’s guilty?
Pandering to the “homeless” – camping on our sidewalks, shooting up, and publicly defecatiing is not compassionate, and it’s not common sense
Etc.
I don’t care what high office anyone holds, if what they’re trying to convince me of does not make common sense, I will not make the leap outside it for them.
As stated earlier, truth dictates reality. No one can change that. The only way to avoid using common sense is force – or the threat thereof.
Identity politics is a button to coddle people by telling them they are not responsible for themselves, some other “group identity” is. It’s contrary to the Constitution we live under and encourages victimhood.
Einstein is credited as coining: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Einstein’s great friend and intellectual sparring partner Niels Bohr nuanced his view: “Naïveté is doing the same thing over and over, and always expecting the same result.”
In both those minds, and in ours, reality cannot be substituted for common sense.
We all could and should know that common sense will prevail. It’s where truth intersects reality.
That’s where we all ultimately want to live.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20sense
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/einstein-s-parable-of-quantum-insanity/
SPIDER Bites
This week’s trivia question: How many balls are on a pool table at the start of a game of 8-ball? The answer to last week’s what sushi is usually wrapped in: seaweed.
7 horses left the gate in Saturday’s Preakness with National Treasure – out of the No. 1 slot – in a wire-to-wire win.
Appointed by Bill Barr in 2019, Special Prosecutor John Durham issued a 300-page report last week that was critical of the DOJ and FBI for their investigations into Russian 2016 influence supposedly garnered by the Trump election campaign. What’s scary about the findings is that the FBI based its extensive investigations on unsubstantiated reports. The FBI in a written statement admitted it acted improperly when investigating former President Donald Trump and the alleged Russian collusion. This kind of biased stuff isn’t supposed to happen in America, but it shows why the vast majority of voters have little confidence in our government institutions or the media anymore.
Meanwhile, the IRS has disbanded the team investigating possible tax evasion by Hunter Biden.
You’ve likely heard about the latest call for mitigating climate change by substituting bugs for meat in our diets. Like charging your EV with fossil fuel generated electricity, the current bent for eating bugs ignores what the cultivated bugs are going to eat. Dah. They’re going to eat crops and vegetation which take CO2 out of the air to make oxygen and energy (photosynthesis). Dumb, dumb, dumb.
US News & World Report released its 2023 list of best places to live in America last week. Topping the list of 12 are Green Bay, WI and Huntsville, AL. Ocala didn’t make the finals, coming in at 91st.
Oh, continuing on the bent to eliminate any Confederate reference to its bases and still following the George Floyd killing, the DoD changed the name of Ft. Benning last week to Ft. Moore.
The Fed added another quarter point to interest rate hikes last week. With lending down significantly over the last year or so, and the additional loss of value of government securities they hold, more banks will likely be in trouble. Raising the debt ceiling will also probably result in another credit rating downgrade for the US. This debt-ceiling “crisis” is entirely Washington’s own making, it comes from a silly system in the first place, and it happens every other year or so. Nobody wins if spending is not checked in the future.
With many corporations now being run by the woke, last week Miller Lite joined Bud Light’s conflict with reality. That’s what ESG and DEI can do.
NYC’s parents got their mayor to cease using neighborhood schools to house illegal immigrants. So much for “sanctuary” cities.
Our governor DeSantis announced last week FL is sending 1,100 national guard troops to assist overwhelmed border patrol agents.
