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With Common-sense, Discover Common Purpose

Who'd have thought you'd have to search for common-sense? It was always there, clear as day. Now many of these shared understandings are lost, amid the collective amnesia that engulfs everyone trying to make sense of it all.

Remember how it was before mass surveillance? Before socially acceptable thought had been corralled into a few narrow channels tightly controlled by official censors? Free expression originating from the privacy of free thought was freely available to everyone. Creative energy, spontaneous imaginings, stray thoughts powered natural intelligence and innovation. Artificial-intelligence algorithms can be useful -- as servants of human intuition, but not as masters.

Please join me on a journey of remembrance leading to a brighter future of natural intelligence and common-sense. In recalling what led us to this pass, the scales of collective amnesia, secret expertise, and official narratives drop away, and what was once lost is found. Among my associates at Substack, and in the many unofficial streams of consciousness still circulating freely, can be found a wealth of direct observations and interpretations to inform your thinking and action.

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