So, what are our senses, and what about our sixth sense?
1. Sight - This is the ability to see through false statements. It is the ability to look through rosy glasses and see the best in people and opportunities. It is the ability to make the most of bad situations.
2. Sound - This is the ability to hear the true meaning of what is being said. It is listening to others, and hearing their frustrations and fears. It is the awareness of the beauty in music and being able to differentiate it from the noise that is purported to be music.
3. Smell - It is the ability to sniff out a bad situation it is a sense of sifting out the air to differentiate the aroma of Mama’s soup vos shmekt from the rodent in the woodpile.
4. Taste - It is the beauty, or lack of it, in items like clothes, jewelry, music, etc. It is the selection we make from the gamut of the gross to the exotic. In the ultimate, it is the beauty we instill into our lives that separates the mundane from the extraordinary.
5. Touch - It is the stamp we put on things or people with whom we interact. When we put a touch on someone we are the takers, the usurpers, drainers, ruiners of humanity. On the other hand, it is the softness of Mama’s caress, the downy pillow, or the warmth of the sun on our skin.
6. Sixth Sense – Googling gives the definition as, “A supposed intuitive faculty giving awareness not explicable in terms of normal perception.” In other words, just plain intuition. I would suggest that instead we use “common sense” as the real sixth sense.
Googling “common sense” quotes results in names of famous people whom we studied in history and literature classes; Voltaire, Rene Descartes, Victor Hugo, Thomas Paine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes, Teddy Roosevelt, and Will Rogers. In more modern times they include; Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, Admiral Rickover, and George Carlin.
“Common sense” is really rare and quite uncommon. It belongs to the wise and in the realm of wisdom. A perfect example is the national health debate. The solution seems to be to throw more money into the “Health System”. This is a perfect example of cognotive dissonance. While we have learned and attacked the problems of smoking and alcohol, obesity is a major problem from which The Colonel, McDonald, Wendy, Jack, Carl, Popeye, and Wimpy have become wealthy. Myriads of Americans are slowed down and die each year from the poison they advertise and feed us.
All we need to do is have a tax of a dollar on each burger and use that money to subsidize the healthy foods. Shortly our healthcare system would be self-sustaining. Let’s discard the Obama Plan and institute the Common Sense Fishl Plan. It will cost only the expense of collecting the money from the bad guys and giving it to the good guys. If you want to smoke, you pay for it. If you want to become inebriated, you pay for it. If you want to be obese, you should pay for it. No wonder we get sick on a diet of biscuits and butter, mashed potatoes soaking in gravy, French fries, hamburgers and drowned down with coke.
Let’s put big signs on these establishments with the warning, “Enter at your own peril.” Let them become true fast food havens for healthful eating. Let’s reward them for doing the right thing. Let’s become red-blooded Americans and not the ketchup and red meat Americans.
