Unfortunately, common sense is increasingly fragmented by immigration and multiculturalism. What was once common is no longer so as a trip to Bradford can demonstrate, The sense of how to live life, of our nation, is anything but common; it is balkanised. The common sense of the English in rural towns and villages is vastly different to that in the parallel cultures that have taken root and grown in recent decades.
There is no overarching narrative to reflect aims or values or to conform to beyond 'diversity is our strength'. We are to passively acquiesce in the erosion of our way of life and deny what we see happening before us - colonisation, both physically and intellectually. We are to lose confidence in our own common sense.
There are many strands to the assault on common sense from rewriting history to the sacrilisation of identity politics, two tier policing and telling impressionable young children that they may have been born in the wrong body.
Likening the nation to large petri dish, there were a few dark spots of isolated toxins (mainly intellectuals as George Orwell noted) but we harldy noticed and when we did we tolerantly ignored them. But the toxins began multiplying and spreading acorss the whole dish. There are areas of resistance, of common sense - no, children are not born in the wrong body - but we are backed towards the edges in places like this substack.
Yes, nicely put. For me, reading this essay was like having a light switched on to reveal a self-evident truth that I hadn't hitherto really thought about. (A lack of common sense on my part, maybe?) Then, Stout Yeoman, your comment augments the story.
"... the hostility directed at common sense is motivated by a powerful anti-democratic impulse." Absolutely.
I would trace the origin of the rejection of common sense to Emmanuel Kant. Anything human beings think is the real world, is not. An absolutely terrible idea which is to blame for much of modern philosophy's rejection of reality.
It seems to be obvious to me what is happening to us, the ordinary white people in our countries. Commonsense says filling our countries up with cultures that are completely foreign and unsympathetic to a western judeo Christian worldview, screaming at us about decolonisation, advancing immoral sexual behaviours which lead to sex confusion and trying to tell us that the world will end if we don’t let these climate experts lead us us into darkness and penury is all completely wrong and destructive. Our instincts are not wrong. We can see where the experts are leading us.
Unfortunately, common sense is increasingly fragmented by immigration and multiculturalism. What was once common is no longer so as a trip to Bradford can demonstrate, The sense of how to live life, of our nation, is anything but common; it is balkanised. The common sense of the English in rural towns and villages is vastly different to that in the parallel cultures that have taken root and grown in recent decades.
There is no overarching narrative to reflect aims or values or to conform to beyond 'diversity is our strength'. We are to passively acquiesce in the erosion of our way of life and deny what we see happening before us - colonisation, both physically and intellectually. We are to lose confidence in our own common sense.
There are many strands to the assault on common sense from rewriting history to the sacrilisation of identity politics, two tier policing and telling impressionable young children that they may have been born in the wrong body.
Likening the nation to large petri dish, there were a few dark spots of isolated toxins (mainly intellectuals as George Orwell noted) but we harldy noticed and when we did we tolerantly ignored them. But the toxins began multiplying and spreading acorss the whole dish. There are areas of resistance, of common sense - no, children are not born in the wrong body - but we are backed towards the edges in places like this substack.
Yes, nicely put. For me, reading this essay was like having a light switched on to reveal a self-evident truth that I hadn't hitherto really thought about. (A lack of common sense on my part, maybe?) Then, Stout Yeoman, your comment augments the story.
"... the hostility directed at common sense is motivated by a powerful anti-democratic impulse." Absolutely.
I would trace the origin of the rejection of common sense to Emmanuel Kant. Anything human beings think is the real world, is not. An absolutely terrible idea which is to blame for much of modern philosophy's rejection of reality.
It seems to be obvious to me what is happening to us, the ordinary white people in our countries. Commonsense says filling our countries up with cultures that are completely foreign and unsympathetic to a western judeo Christian worldview, screaming at us about decolonisation, advancing immoral sexual behaviours which lead to sex confusion and trying to tell us that the world will end if we don’t let these climate experts lead us us into darkness and penury is all completely wrong and destructive. Our instincts are not wrong. We can see where the experts are leading us.