Having the same thoughts and opinions as the majority locks you into some sort of mental pattern where you can’t deviate. You become locked like an npc, but it also becomes easy to route around you.
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Or perhaps the majority opinion is held by the majority because that's the way most peoples' brains work, and we're generic sports that Nature allows for, to give humanity a way out of mental traps.
Like the prophets of old.
To change your mind—to learn—requires a willingness to venture into the unknown. The unknown is where all the monsters and dragons live, which is why most avoid it, but the hero knows that behind the dragon there is treasure (knowledge).
Important to remember that you can still be a normie in a subset of humanity that is non-normie… I.e. the unthinking simps in the bitcoin community that simply parrot the talking points. I think on a relative basis there are fewer among us. I think it’s also true, and perhaps more of a risk when you find yourself in a successful heretical movement, that at any point you can begin sliding into the normie mold. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom… on both the individual and macro scale