Let me give you an example of common sense, which seems to be a misnomer as it seems a very uncommon trait in our nature. Two years ago we were on the brink of starting a war against Iraq and there was a lot of disquiet about the motives for so doing. I joined up with one of the biggest demonstrations of opposition ever witnessed. I was part of a million strong throng of human beings gathered on the streets of London to voice the this feeling, shared on the same day by millions worldwide who were on the streets in other cities.
What united us was a common sense, a shared intelligence, that what we were being told as reasons for going to war, were in truth a tissue of deceipt perpetrated by the US regime, and backed surprisingly by a “labour government in Britain. As has so often been the case the war went ahead as planned, our opposition fruitless. But as time passed the lies we had been told became common knowledge. The fruits of this deceipt are being felt very painfully in Iraq today as well as the US and Britain.
In this age of global media coverage the common man is becoming more informed and with a little wise discrimination, common sense should become a lot more common.