very intelligent wife is she is very much a herd thinker by her current habit and has actually said to me that my understanding about the world must be inaccurate because none of her friends share my opinion and a minority opinion is likely to be wrong.

This is 100% why we are where we are.

They are so terrified of being kicked out of the herd and shunned that they will do ANYTHING to stay with it - including shunning family members who refuse to follow that same herd.

They have to shun you because if you go against the group and get shunned, they might get shunned, too, through guilt by association. And we've seen how fast The Herd is to shun outsiders (non-vaxxxers) and rip them to shreds.

It's been utterly shocking to learn that so many folks that I thought were strong, independent free thinkers instantly jumped to Stay With the Herd the minute a Scary Thing happened - the minute the newsreaders told them to.

Never would have believed it if I had not seen it for myself.

very intelligent wife is she is very much a herd thinker by her current habit and has actually said to me that my understanding about the world must be inaccurate because none of her friends share my opinion and a minority opinion is likely to be wrong.

This is 100% why we are where we are.

They are so terrified of being kicked out of the herd and shunned that they will do ANYTHING to stay with it - including shunning family members who refuse to follow that same herd.

They have to shun you because if you go against the group and get shunned, they might get shunned, too, through guilt by association. And we've seen how fast The Group is to shun outsiders (non-vaxxxers) and rip them to shreds.

It's been utterly shocking to learn that so many folks that I thought were strong, independent free thinkers instantly jumped to Stay With the Herd the minute a Scary Thing happened - the minute the newsreaders told them to.

Never would have believed it if I had not seen it for myself.

very intelligent wife is she is very much a herd thinker by her current habit and has actually said to me that my understanding about the world must be inaccurate because none of her friends share my opinion and a minority opinion is likely to be wrong.

This is 100% why we are where we are.

They are so terrified of being kicked out of the herd and shunned that they will do ANYTHING to stay with it - including shunning family members who refuse to follow that same herd.

They have to shun you because if you go against the group and get shunned, they might get shunned to through guilt by association.

It's been utterly shocking to learn that so many folks that I thought were strong, independent free thinkers instantly jumped into line to Stay With the Herd the minute the newsreaders told them to.

Never would have believed it if I had not seen it for myself.