Common Among Peoples Senses

Just throwing it out there, I totally thought that the post was supposed to be on Chapter 5. It was not. It is on Chapter 4. Common sense would have been to check the syllabus or to actually look at the blog and pay attention to what chapter we were supposed to blog about, but it did not. Why is that? Why is it that to most people that would have been the case? They would have checked the syllabus right away if they were unsure. 

I did not simply because I have always been use to being right when guessing. Which I know to an extent is wrong, to pride myself with knowing the answer, to think it is common sense that the first guess is always right. The book says that common sense comes from past experience, say trial and error if you will. You drop something, it will fall to the ground. Is that true? Or is that just base off of what had happened to us before and we just expect it to happen once we release something from our grasp? Is this a question? (I just threw that one in because I like asking questions I am thinking about). 

Learning a "common sense" may just be like learning what is "good." It may very well just be as elusive as the wind. In the chapter, it describes "common sense" as postmodern. Of which, I agree. For most Minnesotans, it is common knowledge that because there has been 3-6 inches of snow on the ground it will be unlikely that school will be canceled or delayed. Move that to the East coast in recent times, they are experiencing something almost completely foreign and extreme to which we consider to be benign. 

What is 'common sense' to me may not be 'common sense' to you. And having my own unique thoughts or expectations of something wouldn't be considered 'common sense'. I think it needs to be shared in order for it to be more viable or considered. We may all have Cartoon network on our Satellite/ Cable channels, but on Comcast it's on channel 42 whereas Dish may have it on 171. Most of the time that is not common knowledge depending on whether or not you have used either in your life time. Or even watch cartoons.