Funny how often common sense is just plain wrong

I just love it when uneducated people complain about "book smart"
people not having common sense. This makes me laugh because this
bit of homespun bullshit wisdom is just something to make the unwashed
masses feel a little bit better about the fact that they are too stupid
to pick up a fuckin' book once in a while.

"Ooo, look at me! I'm reading a book. What this orange thing on the
stove. OW! That's hot. I wonder if it will burn me again. OUCH! Oh
damn my book smarts, if only I had common sense enough to keep
my hand out of fire."

The truth is, common sense and street smarts are not some benefit
of illiteracy. And common sense is not denied those who at some point
in their lives decided to what all that philosophy and science shit is all
about. My doctor is a pretty smart guy, but if he didn't have any common
sense, he wouldn't be much of a doctor, now would he?

Meanwhile, I've seen plenty of non Rhodes scholar types riding their
bikes around town shirtless wearing jeans to go buy some more beer
which is pretty much why they are stuck riding a bike down a busy
street in the middle of the day just to go buy more beer any way. Not
too bright. Perhaps a little Nietzsche would do them some good.