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Jordan Peterson a philosopher? That's a laugh. Or perhaps that precisely what's wrong with him.

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Any journalist that refers to 'common sense' has no sense him/herself. One has to teach and demonstrate sense for it to grow. common. Roman Juvenal opined it did not exist as Voltaire confirmed in 18C . 'Peak sense' can be dated to c. 1870 when modern science philosophy rendered 3000 years of science [Natural Philosophy] archaic.

Example: when a nation exhausts its natural resources, it is not 'common sense' to increase its population, unless of course one is a shopkeeper or involved in services ultimately funded by a democratically elected future borrowing institution.

Sense should evolve from 'general all-round education' into common existence as the now archaic 18C Enlightenment promised. The Young are tired of fighting 'old men's' wars as that makes no sense at all. It is not the poor who start wars?

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