Bill Bonner on groupthink

Group-think is popular because it is easier than private thinking and the stakes are lower.  A man's public attitudes are buttressed by others, held up by the media, and reinforced by constant repetition.  His private thoughts, on the other hand, are fragile, lonely and often desolate.  He cannot even get his own children to clean up their rooms or his wife to agree to his family budget; who can blame him for wanting to tell others what to do?

~ Bill Bonner, Financial Reckoning Day, p. 170