Education vs Common Sense. Part 1.

Is it really true that education can destroy the ability to follow common sense?

Yes it is. Common sense is the way we always experience life. When faced with a new situation we simply apply lessons we have gathered from our general experience of life: our common sense.

For example, all experience tells us that there is a right way of doing anything and there is a wrong way. If you drive your car in the wrong way you can cause death or destruction. If you eat the wrong foods you could harm your body. And so on. That’s how we experience life.

But how many times do we hear a professor (especially in the social ‘sciences’) say “there is no right or wrong answer; there are just opinions, life is subjective.” And his students feel learned when they become less “judgmental” since there are really no objectively right or wrong ideas. They master this “learned” habit until they reach ridiculous levels of subjectivism: there is no right or wrong culture, it’s all subjective. We only have to understand other cultures.

Meanwhile those who are not privileged with such levels of advanced education can clearly see that just as there are destructive drivers on the road, there are destructive cultures in the world. They can clearly see some cultures leading to destruction of life, while the ivory tower professors continue saying that all cultures are valid, all ideas are valid, there is no right and wrong and there is (especially) no good and evil.

Nietzsche even wrote a book for the elite called “Beyond Good and Evil.” It is supposedly a state you reach when you become an advanced human being, above the lost masses who think that life is as simple as it looks. It is a state of an intellectual “over man” (super man).

And yet, in reality, it is this sort of irrational elitism that makes such people continuously craft policies (for “the masses”) that only lead to death and destruction. More people in history have died from the grand unrealistic visions of such leaders than have died from all natural disasters and calamities combined. But this fact does nothing to discourage them or to cause any sort of humble reservations before they embark on their next “plan” for the salvation of the poor masses.

In short, they have the audacity of hoping against common sense.