Thank you, Lanu! I am not in defense of going with the herd, but there are biological reasons behind this tendency. Humans have finite cognitive resources and critical thinking quickly uses them up. Herd mentality is energy conservation. With many (many) people stuck in survival mode/scarcity thinking, there is a subconscious restriction to conserve energy. Thinking critically when few people around you are can be frightening and a source of alienation. It takes a lot of support to embrace a questioning lifestyle.