This wisdom, scientifically named 'argumentum ad populum' (Latin) in logic, is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges, "If many believe so, it is so."
For example, morale, culture, way of life, world view, tradition, taboo, what your mother told you to follow when you are small, education, constitutional and inconstitutional law....etc
There are thousands of examples/things in life that can prove that human have overdependent on this simple wisdom. Do you ever question yourself of why war or any verbal dispute can ever happened in life? Of course many will eventually blame that it is just a crash of different agenda and courses, the good person/party will always win/be the correct one. Someone inside the dispute who act/think out of this Conventional Wisdom would always be considered the wrong one by the majority. The Concentional Wisdom overwhelme those 'Unconcentional' one, which proposed by someone who are being able to jump out of the concrete barrier of the CW. This nature has yet to be questioned by human and it is this nature that has manipulate human from the very start of human history. Believe it or not, the catastrophe of human species, brought about by the damage of our earth environment in near centuries, is believed to be caused by our own 'CW'!
CW widespread from the first page of human history, because human born without an ultimate guidebook which state what things in life is right and what is wrong. Then religion born out of human's unconcious faith and fear. Then, human-made 'guide', ex: Bible or Quran, emerged out of nothing. People then treat religion and its guide as the undisputable truth, as an comfort zone of priceless psycological support. But no one ever question why religion could not give answer to eveything, they could just provide guide to life and only be able to promote a WAY OF LIFE. This guidance, if under logic scrutiny, are all born out of our human's own CW. So, simply, RELIGION = NORMAL HUMAN CONVENTIONAL WISDOM. The only different between the two is just that the former one being tagged 'SACRED', seemingly conveyed by that very special SOMEONE. Human who challenge the CW in life would be told to refer to that SACRED GUIDE, constitutional law also based on the senses of that guide, really, human never have greater autonomy to challenge truth since that CW is born. which I think is merely looping in the same circle, futile. If religion really provide the truth, human race will not heading towards extinction in the future caused by their own over-developement; life of human would not be treated unequally; Holocaust may be prevented; discrimination worldwide would no longer exist...etc, because the GUIDES are said to be bringing us to a better tomorrow. But we keep on refer, refer, and refer back to our CW(religious guide), after all no way finding the solution to human's problems.
Meanwhile, a battle could not be happenning without the present of some human that understand that we need to climb beyond the blurring wall of CW. They challenge the conventional 'truth', break rules, rethink orders, question those indisputable, make change and IMPROVE. We can name some examples of individuals who did that. Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, once imprisoned, house arrested and sentence to death ( "abjure, curse and detest") by the catholic church owing to his opinion that deny earth as the centre of universe. A genius nearly being killed by the self-acclaimed CW of that religious doctrine (GUIDE). The 'sacred doctrine' is merely a CREATION of human creativity and not the truth. This simple example has since disturbing human indulgence in overdependent of our own CW. But since, also human failed to accept those who opposed the CW.
Apart from Galilei, many other individuals or parties who see beyond the paradigm of CW and tough enough not to sway away from by the lying 'truth', have contribute trimendously to the improvement of human life. Amongst, Renaissance forefathers, industrial revolutionists, French revolutionists, architecture modenists, and many more. After all, they do not saw the truth, but assertive enough to have faith in their own new 'truth'. Change happenned. The world could see a further horizon, a greater enlightenment.
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