Common-Sense & Reason

“Time is not the rarest commodity anymore; Common-Sense is.”

Although time is often referred to as the rarest commodity, nowadays, it is common-sense and reason that are the rarest commodities.

Common-sense is becoming rarer because modern, and especially new-age social-constructs, self-serving ideologies, and motivational-teachings, through the fallacy of appeals-to-emotions, are advocating emotional-reasoning over factual-thinking. Theory of Self-Relativity defines “common-sense” as “the pragmatic application of observation, knowledge and experience.” However, pragmatism has taken a back-seat to prioritize people’s feelings.

Those who are quick to adopt this emotional-appeal because it makes them feel good, tend to overlook the deception of these fallacies that is intended to persuade and convince them into believing something that is not as represented. Since self-deception is identified as the primary enemy for self-improvement in Self-Relativity; emotional-appeals promoters enable self-deception by deceptively, yet subtly, promoting emotional-reasoning over factual-thinking because they have an agenda to fulfill. This is why Theory of Self-Relativity advocates and teaches what it has termed as factual-thinking, so that we can distinguish between comforting and deceptive fallacies, and factual reality.