I am not even yet 40, and basically, 80% of the people I’ve ever known in my life have at least once, driven drunk or high or while on prescription drugs that make them considerably uh, dulled, or as with your scenario, overly exhausted and fatigued.
I don’t drive any more, barely at all.
America’s roads suck shit, and the drivers are fucking astoundingly unsafe.
But, because our mass transit generally sucks as well, we are stuck in a destructive feedback loop, we are running our cars and our minds and bodies untill they just totally give out.
Anyway, completely agree with your perspective on driving, you would think that would be common sense, but evidently not.
I agree, which is why I only use the term in a kind of negative reference: this knowledge is evidently not common place.
Err… well ok, unless it is the proper noun form, directly referring to Tom Paine’s revolutionary war era pamphlet… which… I think is the sort of proximal etymylogical / cultural origin of the phrase as we use it today?
Either way, yes, its a bastardized term now, like how ‘literally’ now also means roughly ‘figuratively + extremely’ in certain contexts, from certain speakers.
I think that back in 1770’s English, ‘common’ was also often used to mean something … simple, unremarkable, basic.
Not just uh… plentiful, easily found in many places.
So then, ‘common sense’ would roughly translate to modern English as something like ‘basic logic’.
And to loop that all around, I would say that people who … do not treat driving a car like they are operating a ton or two of mass that can move up to 80 or 120 mph or whatever… you know, as that, well they actually are not excercising what I would call basic logic.
I am not even yet 40, and basically, 80% of the people I’ve ever known in my life have at least once, driven drunk or high or while on prescription drugs that make them considerably uh, dulled, or as with your scenario, overly exhausted and fatigued.
I don’t drive any more, barely at all.
America’s roads suck shit, and the drivers are fucking astoundingly unsafe.
But, because our mass transit generally sucks as well, we are stuck in a destructive feedback loop, we are running our cars and our minds and bodies untill they just totally give out.
Anyway, completely agree with your perspective on driving, you would think that would be common sense, but evidently not.
I don’t like the term “common sense” because anytime is used, the sense that is in question is almost always, not very common.
I agree, which is why I only use the term in a kind of negative reference: this knowledge is evidently not common place.
Err… well ok, unless it is the proper noun form, directly referring to Tom Paine’s revolutionary war era pamphlet… which… I think is the sort of proximal etymylogical / cultural origin of the phrase as we use it today?
Either way, yes, its a bastardized term now, like how ‘literally’ now also means roughly ‘figuratively + extremely’ in certain contexts, from certain speakers.
I think that back in 1770’s English, ‘common’ was also often used to mean something … simple, unremarkable, basic.
Not just uh… plentiful, easily found in many places.
So then, ‘common sense’ would roughly translate to modern English as something like ‘basic logic’.
And to loop that all around, I would say that people who … do not treat driving a car like they are operating a ton or two of mass that can move up to 80 or 120 mph or whatever… you know, as that, well they actually are not excercising what I would call basic logic.