SENSING: Thomas Paine Common Sense

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The media has been used pretty much since our nation’s birth to manipulate the masses into making decisions (see Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”). The fact that our government, people in power or other various groups control and influence what’s Early on in the American Revolution, on Jan. 9, 1776, Common Sense by Thomas Paine was published. Paine started writing Common Sense under the title "Plain Truth" but Benjamin Rush, who helped edit and publish the pamphlet, suggested changing the title. This piece originally appeared in NewDeal 2.0. Here’s John Adams on Thomas Paine’s famous 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense”: “What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass.” Then comes Paine on Adams: “John was not born for It was during this time, in January 1776. that Thomas Paine published (anonymously) a short booklet titled simply Common Sense, which proposed the goal that only a few had seriously considered before--independence from Britain and the establishment of a Only in hindsight can we see what a difference such a book made. Here is one such book. What it is: "Common Sense," by Thomas Paine, 1776, colonial America. How it changed the world: Paine's book — a pamphlet, actually — was a blockbuster best-seller In his 1776 bestseller “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine cautions his fellow Americans that “a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” .

At the darkest moment of the War for Independence, Thomas Paine penned a trenchant pamphlet to his life as “bohemian.” Paine, though, was selflessly dedicated to the cause of independence. His “Common Sense,” published in January 1776, is Charles Kesler: With Tom Paine, we arrive at a figure who is … Central might be a little bit too strong, but important in two revolutions. I mean, he was the author of “Common Sense” and “The Crisis” over here in the American revolution Paine grew up in England, sailed with the British navy, moved to America in 1774 and produced his British-bashing "Common Sense" two years later who had supported the American Revolution. But soon they split over the French Revolution, when Burke It was on this day in 1776 that Thomas Paine first published his pamphlet “Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects” (better known to us as Common Sense). This document is widely credited with pulling .