1000 Days of a turkey's Common Sense

Common Sense is based on knowledge. And knowledge flows because educated lots don't think. They listen to people whom they trust and start believing what they are told. This forms the very basic pillar for publicity and propaganda. People who encourage others to think are deemed subversive. Socrates encouraged his followers to think, and he was accused of corrupting the youth.The reason is pretty clear. When you think for yourself you may come out with answers that deviate from the accepted truths of society around you. It means a lot of people are going to be upset with you. Copernicus, Columbus and Galileo are classic examples.
Consider a turkey's life. Right from birth, every morning it is pulled out of its cage, and made to swim in a pond and is fed with everything it wants and at the end of the day it is put back into its cage again. It leads this happy life for hundreds of days till the thousandth day and on the 1001th day it gets its head chopped of and is lying on a rich man's plate in a High Profile Restaurant who eats it over talks on business, family and other "important" stuff.
The turkey's common sense is defied all throughout its life because what it has observed and inferred during those 1000 days is no way indicative of the fact that it has been raised to get killed. An intelligent one in flock might wonder where their loved ones go, but the reality is something they can never know, because it defies their common sense.
Basic common sense said that it is not possible in any case for a 80 kg man to fly, or for a piece of iron 100 tonnes of weight to float on water, or that the earth is round, or that sun does not revolve around the earth.

"How can the sun not revolve around the earth, its basic common sense."

Another example, an american air force officer who anticipates the threat before 9/11 , using his powers responsibly gets the gates of all airplanes in his country replaced with 6 inch think steel gates, and 9/11 was averted. Now that 9/11 did not happen, the officer was fired, for wasting country's resources in something unworthy. The guy can't claim saving ten thousand lives. An Indian chap claimed saving thousands of lives in Mumbai, considering the terrorists plans, and that only 180 were killed. The city so big, with so well planned, the terrorists were restricted to only small attacks. The guy could not put this into proper words, a mistake that TV media never does and made sure that the guy was sacked. Not surprising to anyone of us, the guy was R.R. Patil. Because he thought of something, which defied everybody's common sense.
Educated people are less likely to discover truth, because their minds are filled with knowledge,which is nothing but others thoughts in which they believe, they call it common sense.