Common sense or dogma of the common

Reconciling the covid propaganda

When we look back on the folly of history we wonder how those situations could ever have taken hold.

History is full of ridiculous examples of the prevailing common sense of the time.

Which brings us to the question of what common sense actually is and whether common sense is actually a good thing or a bad thing. The phrase makes no claims to be either.

Common sense in reality is no different to collective thought.

Collective thought could also be a good description for a cult. So does that mean a cult is common sense, nonsense or just sense that hasn’t yet become common?

Common sense points more towards the narrative of the majority than it does to anything real or based in fact. Common sense is dynamic over time as different interest groups take over and control the majority. They control the senses of the common.

This is how the common public has supported such ridiculous historical ideologies and events. The common allowed their sense to be controlled and this is what we have seen with covid-19 propaganda.

From when we are young we are told to respect authority. Follow the rules, have faith in government.

But how does this play out in the time of covid19 when impressionable children are involved?

It’s been two years of contradictions and ever changing information. Two years of fear and panic from government and media. Much of which has not made sense.

Constantly bombarded from every direction, we have no choice as parents but to teach our children to be responsible and follow the governments rules. The governments common sense du jour. We don’t want them to grow up to be criminals after all.

We see others downplaying the covid threat! The conspiracy theorists! Those tin foil hat wearers the government warned us about. Selfish ferals. They’re an existential threat you know.

Our children see us get angry at them because the government has told us we should. We tell our children to shun them no matter how much sense they may make.

The threat of a public flogging is very real for those who dare to question the prevailing common sense

By example, we amplify the fear and hate in our children. All to protect them of course.

But then cracks start to appear in the governments narrative.

We find out those tin foil hat wearers we warned our kids about may have been right all along.

So what do we tell our kids?

Do we tell our them that the government was wrong and that we were wrong?

How do we justify our childish behaviour? The bullying and the fear. The hate and the panic.

With more anger and hate?

What choice do we have?

Could we admit to our children and friends that we were wrong about everything? That we fell hook line and sinker for the government propaganda. The propaganda the government told us they would use against us?

Or does the shame of being wrong in front of our families and friends outweigh reality?

Is continued support for the government the only way to avoid the naked shame we would feel in front of our family and friends were we to admit the truth? In the misguided hope that if enough of us do so, it will become the prevailing common sense.

Sort of like a herd immunity from the painful truth.

When things suddenly don’t match up with reality it creates a huge moral dilemma which most people just don’t have the cognitive ability to navigate.

Propaganda creates cognitive dissonance of the worst kind as it makes us publicly invest all our credibility into a manufactured illusion.

So what would you do?

Admit everything you’ve told your children in the last two years is wrong?

Or hold onto the propaganda for dear life.

The sense of the common is controlled over generations not days. The common are prepared for it with skill. That is why governments and interest groups hire futurists. To control the will of the people, to change future societal direction and to make their brand of sense become common.

For the weak of mind who did not see this coming I feel pity. Pity that you have allowed your senses to be controlled and pity that you are now so heavily invested in the prevailing dogma of the masses. The new common sense.

What will the future hold, and how will it affect our childrens lives as they grow into adulthood?