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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Am I Crazy or Just Ignorant?

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Continuing our wild and wooly dialogue with Reclaiming Common Sense , When Thomas Paine appealed to "common sense" to make the c...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2019

What's the Big Idea?

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Almost no time this morning, or at least I ran out of it quickly. There's really only one idea in this post, but I suppose it's a bi...
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Sunday, October 06, 2019

Sunday Sermon on Common Sense

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Just some more free associations on the subject of common sense, beginning with an aphorism: The liberal mentality is an angelic visitor im...
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Friday, October 04, 2019

Responsibilities are Antecedent to Rights: It's Just Common Sense

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A very preliminary approach to common sense. I had to end the post just when I was warming up, but we'll pick up the thread in coming d...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

The Passion of the Antichrist

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A few years ago we discussed Robert Curry's Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea . Now comes the sequ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

If Truth is a Myth, All Myths are True

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Just an old post, revised, extended, and fortified with new insights and old aphorisms. The reason being that I'm getting over a mild c...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

It's a Whine-Win Situation: The Weak Shall Inhabit the State

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For those who have lost the plot, I've been editing and revising any old posts that touch on the theme of common sense, in preparation f...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

The Educational Establishment and the Incarnation of Stupid

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Before reading Common Sense Nation , I had never heard of the philosopher Thomas Reid , the intrepid discoverer of Common Sense. Prior to h...
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Friday, September 20, 2019

Prolegomenon to Reclaiming Common Sense, If I'm Using that Word Correctly

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Another mature post, aged for several years in an old rain barrel in my side yard, now extensively revised and maybe even edited: Schuon ch...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Everyone has a Religion, and Some are Even True

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So, is common sense rooted in principles, or do principles flow from common sense? And is common sense universal, or does it change from ep...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

The Self-Evident Truth Society

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Reader James asks (or asked five years ago): "How does Cosmic Orthodoxy relate to common sense? Or to self-evident truths? If you were ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Wisdom, Maturity, Common Sense

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More common sense from five years ago. If it was commonsensical then, it should still be today, no? In other words, if common sense exists, ...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Common Sense, Common Core, Common Crap

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Here's a tasty repost that's even older than yesterday's exotic repast. Again, in preparation for diving into Reclaiming Common ...
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Saturday, September 07, 2019

Logocide, Soul Murder, and the Death of Common Sense

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Some of you may recall a book we discussed a couple years ago, called Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Ide...
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