I've found that even people in the 140+ IQ range fall victim to the same kinds of groupthink as everyone else. I think you hit on one aspect of why when you pinpoint what these people choose to do with their time. I also think that there are aspects of human psychology that interrupt our higher cognitive functions. Those functions being interrupted likely had some evolutionary advantage which led to it being part of our makeup. The advertising industry capitalizes on this using sexual suggestion. The evolutionary reasons for stupidly engaging in risky sexual behavior are pretty obvious, but the social stupidity isn't quite as apparent. To put it as briefly as possible, social ostracism from an evolutionary standpoint represents genetic death. If you are ejected from the tribe, even if you survive on your own in the jungle, your genes don't get passed on because you lack access to the opposite sex suddenly. The fear that this induces in us is actually more powerful than the fear of death itself. Information from whatever tribal authority people follow will not be challenged by most people in the way it probably should be because of this fear of genetic death that most people are not even aware is happening to them.
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This is excellent input you have added.
I wanted to add some feedback to this part you said:
Ejected, yes, like a banishment. But, when instead of being 'ejected', one preemptively chooses to eject themselves, and gather others of like, who would be on the same alignment, and they together start a 'breakaway' society of their own based on their 'difference' with the old tribe that they feel should be part of the society they want. The fear of ostracism would then be channeled into drive for growth. I am barking up the wrong tree though in this current time. Globalization has pretty much gobbled up tribes and is cramming them all into one. The social ostracism therefore is more severe in my opinion, and it will get worse with the current trend looking the way it is.