A
radical critique that questions society’s belief system and also wishes
to gain assent from members of that society must confront the fact that any
appeal to ‘common sense’ or intuitions will not go deeply enough
because our ‘common sense’ is
part of the problem.
Today’s Green Thought comes
from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.
The usage of the term 'Common sense' has become nothing more than a device for undermining any new idea or thinking. i.e. we cant fly, go to the moon - its common sense. The original concept in fact denotes the opposite i.e. the radical/root truths that can not be argued with. NOT polluting the planet, wiping out species, keeping people in poverty, etc is in fact actual 'common sense'
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