"Common Sense Revolution" gets lost in "The Deniers' Triangle"

Common (NON) Sense

New Right deniers put a lot of faith in common sense against all "this quantum, whatever, nonsense they teach these days in university science".

This is why the New Right like to call their take on governance, "The Common Sense Revolution" .

Unfortunately for the rest of us, common sense is too often wrong about the ultimate, the real, reality - not the reality we would wish it to be, but Reality as it really is.

Don't let my modest manner fool ya

Intellectually, I am damned immodest.

I don't think of us greens/ environmentalists as alternatives at all.

We hold the only accurate view of Reality -- it is our opponents that have a delusional scientific grasp on Reality.

This has been true since the 1920s, at least ; does it need a century to go by before they acknowledge this ?

We can only blame the teaching professions for the fact that kids in the 21st century still leave school stuffed full of the non-truths of the 19th century, by-passing the insights of  20th century science altogether.

If the human species is to survive, teachers must change - or go....

This post came from an old deleted blog called

After Phaetopia

A blog looking for people with something new to say about WWII ....... Because the human species will not survive unless (and until) it changes its mind about who REALLY won and who REALLY lost WWII -- the unacknowledged winners turning out to be those who said Reality is whatever Mother Nature limits it to be, against the acclaimed winners who had said that Reality was whatever they willed it to be...