What happened to all our Common Sense ?
Editor's note: Herewith a reissue of an amusing aside I wrote in 2022 after a particularly perplexing series of announcements, which seemed to defy common sense...enjoy ! --------------------------------------------------------- Pondering the recent article about the closedown of the world’s largest online eBook library by the US authorities in 2022 led me back to the question asked increasingly often nowadays: “ Where has all our common sense gone ?” I thought this might be a good opportunity to take a light-hearted 'tongue-in cheek' look at the logic (or lack of it) underlying human behaviour. What is it ? First of all, what is ‘common sense’ – and how do we define it ? To start with, here's a bit of personal history to put things in context. I can well remember from my early childhood the frequent exhortations I received from my parents in response to what I thought was perfectly reasonable behaviour: ‘…for goodness sake, lad, just use your common sense f...