It is the demagoguery of the bourgeois ideal.
The function of common sense is to simplify, to reassure, to hide unpleasant truths and mysteries.
I don’t just mean that this is what common sense does, or ends up doing; I mean this is what it’s designed to do."
"Common sense (le bon sens) is always wrong.
- Susan Sontag, 1976 As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals & Notebooks
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