The best idea is often the least popular. People can be smart individually but dumb and emotional in groups. Groups control people's individual popularity ranking, so getting in line with groupthink is commanded and obeyed. After joiners, agree to submit to groupthink, they come to believe what they first were suspicious of, and demand that all others submit.
In light of this human dynamic, it is easy to predict that popular ideas are often bad ideas that have been embraced because the community leaders deemed it to be the best idea.
This does not guarantee that the logical processes of thought mulled through and entailed by a loner are generating good ideas, the most of the time, being an outsider allows the thinker to think well, without dismal, misleading preconditions.
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