common sense

Common sense is becoming less common for one reason and one reason only: people no longer have the inate need to think for themselves, to solve problems or deduce meaning in anything. We are told what to think and how to behave by all the TV we watch, the music we listen to, the movies we attend and, in the Information Age, how heavily we rely on the Internet to do our thinking for us. For some, you can add spiritual "leaders" into the mix who are more than happy to live vicariously through their faithful (if you don't agree with that, then please explain the last U.S. Presidential election). There is so little left for us to consider, reason, question or solve that we forget that we are able to do those things when the need arises. When left to think for themselves, most people are at a total loss. Are there any real human beings left? Yes, but we're severely outnumbered by the brainless automatons around whom your complaint is centered.