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(People in bubbles also have a different sense of majority since they're insulated from the "actual" majority.)

People who *do* wear masks often bemoan the politicization of refusing to wear masks, as if they're childishly proving a point. Yet they'll also ignore the entire country of Sweden doing the same thing. They politicizing it as well to draw a line between good/bad smart/stupid.

The more centralized a culture is (e.g. Japan, China, are more centralized relative to the U.S.) the less friction there is for mass coordination since there's less questioning of things. In extreme cases like nationalism, this lack of questioning is a responsibility.

In an organization like a military, which is glued together by nationalist-like energy, questioning things is actively stamped out.

If you've ever had a stupid person constantly question you when you're the authority in some domain you've felt how annoying this is. You feel that questioning you should be a privilege not a right. And in many cases you'd be right. e.g. nuclear technology, surgery, etc...

Stupidity and genius can often be conflated. The one genius thing out of 99 stupid things. Even if it's just random luck, the question is: Is that "genius" worth all the stupid?

Another question to ponder is "How much groupthink is good?" This is something that the 'success' of china is really bringing up. Centralized coordination has its benefits. The Chinese see themselves as Protoss, not Zerg.

The answer is most definitely not zero, just purely based on the fact that *all* thinking is derivative in some way. Even using a language or numbers is borrowed technology from previous humans. A better question might be "How much stubbornness is useful?"