On Common Sense

What is common sense? Is it something that has been tested and proven in various contexts through the ages? If so, who tested it and who proved it?

The answers can wait. But competition is a common sense phenomenon, so are 'essential' hierarchies, professional efficiency and ‘free’ market. The consequences can be anything – inequality, exploitation, and a growing divide between the rich and the poor. But that’s how common sense wants it.

Therefore, it goes without saying that common sense has vested interests. It clings to what has worked in the past. It is driven by the ‘sense’ of those who have benefited maximum from the past. It may push the frontiers of the past (and in doing so, some may lose their privileged status) but it will not let the edifice collapse.