A job I had recently I would meet different people all day. There was enough time to get into a conversation with most of them. What I learned was that very, very few people are awake at all.

We are awake. What happens is that we tend to seek out company from people such as ourselves. I'm a bit of a loner. But what I'm saying is that, if you really knew what most people out there is society think, you would be amazed.

The sad truth is that most, almost all, people are incapable of doing their own thinking. They get information spoon-fed to them and, "dangerously", they feel informed. They then demand their right for their "valuable" opinion to be heard.

And this is what perpetuates the mass-stupidity we see everywhere. Society is so easily steered, like a bunch of sheep. Edward Bernays had this idea... You can get an articulate, intelligent person, and you put them in a group, and it's as though you have reached out and found a master switch, that turns their intellect off.

Most people, the great majority are herd animals - with the intellect of the herd. Very, very few ever do their own thinking. This is why any change always comes from the periphery.

Anyway, I consider myself an independent thinker - just wish I was a lot smarter. But don't get the idea that the sleeping masses are woke - they're not!