What is "common sense?" It seems that not a single person can define the term. In the more ancient and civilised societies, there were overarching cultural and group perspectives, with which men align their thoughts and actions. These cultural perspectives are regional and ethnic specific and do not necessarily transfer across regions and ethnicities. The Protestant West has a perspective that places particular emphasis on the "individual," under which perspective and assumptions your post begins. The curious narcissism that permeates the modern average Western man, who imagines that the universe ought to revolve around his needs and preferences, is but another iteration of the Protestant rebellion, albeit without God.

The relentless subversion of cultural, social, political, and legal authorities by minor aristocrats and mercantile class in the West, via pernicious humanism, has resulted in the current Western social milieu. It is not the anointed rulers who have led the West into societal fragmentation, but the low-born humanist scum clamoring for reform, dictating to their betters on sociopolitical policy issues with which they are and remain ignorant. It is not women's suffrage that caused problems, but the very concept of "democracy:" a ludicrous idea that the unlettered opinions of hoboes are of equal value to that of their erudite betters. At the core of all social ills lies a system that permits men to reach beyond their station. Emphasis on "individuality" not only permits but encourages men to overreach.