The Death of Common Sense and Why It’s Critical to Revive Middle Ground

Somebody has to be able to be critical without being seen as deliberately undermining the target to benefit the opposite party. Somebody has to be able to be critical and when one does it, it has be seen as strengthening the electorates as whole and not weakening the receiving end. It doesnt bode well for us as a democratic society if you agree with anything you see and anything you hear. It seriously damages your sense of critical thinking if disagreement has to be hindered for the sake of loyalty. I dont think electorates should be loyal to anyone but their own interests. The lack of critical thinking could hamper the ability of the electorates to decide what’s in their interests and what’s not.

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Truth is Not a Popular Commodity, Better Not Oversell It

The current global political climate has convinced me that answering with common sense and rationale to irrational questions asked by irrational people on irrational landscape is a futile attempt. It seems that some people are less interested in facts than in fabricated lies that go along with their own narrative or belief. It happens when people stop questioning what is real and what is not. It happens when people start deciding to hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. Room for weighing and elaborating has become scarce. Truth is not a popular commodity at the moment, maybe better not oversell it.

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