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The Shocking Truth About Common Sense
Common Sense is Exactly What It Says It Is - Common The next time someone says you have no common sense, be sure to thank them.If they tell you that you should do a certain thing because it is common sense, spin your cartoon wheels and get the hell out of there. Albert Einstein is attributed with as saying... "Common sense is the collection of prejudices we acquire by the time we are eighteen." I didn't start to realize that until I got a little older. As a culture, many take for granted that common sense is a type of folk wisdom instilled in us from birth onward. In reality, it's conformity. It's what your grand-kids are doing when they all "have to" wear colorful Silly Bandz bracelets. They have to have them. It's common sense, isn't it? Baby boomers will remember these events, as will others. Almost 50 years ago, a group of the best and the brightest gathered with John Kennedy. Together they planned the botched invasion of Cuba. More recently another group gathered to plan two wars, … The Rest of the Story...