I suspect common sense in some respects isn't as common as it is believed to be and in other respects more common.

"Einstein created confusion by using his higher education for mass destruction.."

The higher education he received. Wasn't he a high school drop out who had to take a non-standard entry into higher education (teaching at Swiss polytechnic) getting in on his second attempt after being rejected by several universities? For that matter as creative and generally capable and as much as he knew his physics do we know for sure he was a genius? Was his IQ ever actually measured? What if he was just moderately intelligent and passionate about physics?

Is he a genius or just how people want them to be like? People are more comfortable thinking that such people are frazzled haired eccentrics apparently lacking coherency and common sense like elderly Einstein then equal to other people in other respects. Einstein, who lacked friends at school and couldn't get a job until he became acclaimed, on one occasion said that "religion without science is blind and science without religion is dead" yet on another occasion wrote "For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,". All indications are it was no major conversion just Einstein on different days.

I suspect there is prejudice against intelligent people and a type of xenophobic like fear so he is brought to the fore for his awkwardness. He is the genius version of the nasty Phelpian hillbilly Christian that the media like to hold up for display because they are prejudiced against Christians. He personifies the non threatening genius but was he a genius?

I meant get an academic job. He had to work in a patent office until his theories got him 'discovered'.

Commonsense is the ability to use the IQ(intelligence)in practical and useful ways. This ability seems to come naturally to some people and they are the lateral thinkers and real problem solvers in our society. The rest of us have commonsense to different degrees in different ways. Some people don't seem to have much at all despite being well educated.

If ever Im lost in the wilderness I'll be sticking close to the ones I know have commonsense because that'll be the best way to survive.