I've Never Understood The Logic Behind A "hivemind" - In Other Words, Thinking That People Who Share

I've never understood the logic behind a "hivemind" - in other words, thinking that people who share something in common all think the same. It's kind of like stereotypes, or perhaps racism. It's insulting both to the group and to the individual it's applied it to, and it's one of the biggest reasons we argue and bicker all the time.

This religion is all terrorists or all holier-than-thou stuck-ups, those console fanboys think the other consoles have no good games, and people who do this terrible thing can never be trusted again, ever. Even if you have proof that this is primarily the case, it doesn't mean anything, since any one individual can be the counterexample. It's all just generalizing - a logical fallacy. And people take it seriously!

It's especially annoying when two people who are part of the same group have different opinions, and then people say the hivemind is conflicted/never happy (two people who like the same console can't agree on the quality of a first-party game). How can you not see that it's differing opinions from different people? How do you assume that they're supposed to think the same, all the time? Or, sometimes, people insist that one of them is lying, that they actually believe what the other person said and are trying to save face (peaceful Muslims vs. terrorists, for example). Where's the logic? There is none. It's just stupidity.

In the end, it's no better than being racist. All blacks are horrible people, right? Generalization again. It's the exact same "reasoning." And everyone is guilty of it, to a certain extent - myself included, for generalizing that people who expressly think this way are all idiots (among other things).

"But doesn't that make you a hypocrite?" I'll gladly be the hypocrite if it means I help to reduce the problem as a whole. Not all hypocrites avoid changing themselves too.

Why do schools have uniforms?

Why are people expected to wear a suit when they go to a job interview?

Why do people always worry about how they look?

Why does our society insist on oversexualizing everything?

It's not like outer appearance changes the person on the inside.

To clear up some common misconceptions:

Weird is good. Strange is bad.

Smart is how much you know, intelligent is what you do with it.

Sympathy is having been there; empathy is feeling it without having been there; apathy is not feeling at all.

Bravery is choosing not to be afraid, courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.

This Monday is the upcoming Monday; next Monday is the one after that.

Hearing is sound passing into your ear. Listening is thinking about what the sound means.

NOT AGAIN

"Wooo I finally got around to updating my blog! I've got so many ideas for posts that I can write over the next few days! Maybe if I'm lucky I can write some in advance and queue them up so I don't have to worry about it!"

~two days later~

NOPE, I haven't done anything. This is why we can't have nice things.