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Common Sense
We are surrounded by them.
If you are lucky enough to get
an appointment at a doct-
or’s surgery you can spend a
happy hour or two reading the
instructions posted around the
walls. Just about any net site
you log into these days gives you
several exciting
days of Terms and
Conditions to read
before you tick
the box. Exciting
stuff. We of course
all read them care-
fully from cover to
cover to make sure
that somewhere
hidden in the pr-
inter’s pie are
not subliminal
contracts signing
away your human
rights for gener-
ations to come.
I was once a member of a
committee setting up a national
curriculum for music schools.
We had an idea that it would be
nice to allow students to sing a
song in their exams that they
had perhaps picked up off the
radio and learned by heart. So a
little clause was put in the exam
regulations. Many decades later
one of my students, an extrem-
ely talented singer, had the au-
dacity to turn up at his exam
with a copy of the music to a
song he was supposed to have
learned by heart! It took three
hard months of careful deli-
beration to finally convince the
committee to allow him to pass
his preliminary grade because
of the sin he had committed. As
it happens he was totally unable
to read music at this time. But
the “rules” I had innocently in-
troduced to make life easier for
young students had become a
creed inscribed in marble! This
is how religions are born. What
a humble scribe chiselled away
in Old Testament times about
simple hygiene has become the
dogma of millions.
Bibles, Korans and Talmuds
are full of laws that make no
sense to us today, and have little
or no value. Yet there are still
those who believe
that they should
rule our lives. I
choose not to. All
my three daughters
have been diso-
bedient at one time
or another but I
have stubborn-
ly refused to have
them publicly sto-
ned by the elders.
For that sin I may
have to answer on
judgement day, but
my common sense
told me to spare them.
I recently questioned the
rules regarding my pension
fund. I was told that I would
have to stop working completely
in order to be able to start tak-
ing my pension. I started ask-
ing round and discovered that
other pension funds “interpret-
ed” the rules in a different way,
allowing their clients to carry on
working part-time. Expecting
the worst, I was very pleasant-
ly surprised when I was told
that I would be allowed to work
part-time, because anything else
WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE.
Yes common sense prevailed.
Tony Blair and George Bush
abandoned common sense when
they told us that God had told
them to invade Iraq. Politici-
ans are telling us that Mosques
should not be built in Reykja-
vík. Let them build one, but
please use it to preach, among
other things, Common Sense,
not just doctrine.
MICHAEL CLARKE
GLEÐI OG SKELF-
ING EN UMFRAM
ALLT SUMAR.
Það var stuð
þegar krakkarn-
ir í Fjallaskóla
á Tröllaskaga
útbjuggu sér
vatnsrennibraut í
vikunni.
Gísli Kristinsson