Epic Guide

What is common sense but the general assumptions made by a society that inevitably are proved wrong, generation after generation?

“Common sense” in America is defined by cost and benefit.

For instance, it’s “common sense” to say that purchasing a car worth $20,000 for $15,000 is a good deal. This works very well economically speaking. Unfortunately this paradigm doesn’t work so well for other aspects of society.

Socially for example, marriages are failing because we weigh their effectiveness on a cost/benefit paradigm. How benefitial is it to get married to this person? What can they offer me….money, affection, power, status, attractiveness? Unfortunately, all of those attributes change. People can lose money, they can stop being affectionate towards you from other life experiences, they can lose power, status, and we all eventually become less attractive. And so then there’s this whorrible (I spelled it that way on purpose) sense of insecurity in marriage, because people are constantly reassessing how well their marriage is working based off of a system of cost/benefit. Marriage should be a COMMITTED relationship, not a cost/benefit, economic partnership. Marriage should have nothing to do with “common sense”.