That's confusing the way the world ought to be with the way that it is. Google for pos proof of and tell me what the first page is full of. Things don't go away just because they have no good reason to exist.
You have presented a premise of Conventional Stupidity as if it were factual. It is only factual if you adopt it as your own.
It's only so because you encourage it to be... It went away for
me when
I threw it out.
I actively remove from my life that which has no good reason to exist. If everyone else fails to do that, sucks to be them...Neither Google, nor the unwashed masses, define my thoughts for me. If you choose to adopt their ideas that's your choice. It is not mine.
It is a choice we all make. Try not to impose it on others so much, k? It's that subtle slight-of-hand that causes people to make choices that they don't even realize they are making...
You cannot contribute to the Forest. You can only contribute to the Tree. Thus, there is no such thing as collective wisdom, contributing to society, or socialism; the root of these concepts. This is why socialism fails, and any premise predicated upon it; it's not real. It is the lie you tell yourself to feel good about failing to be better than your genetics.
And before you call me crazy... The line between Genius and Insanity is drawn exclusively by those who comprehend neither.
Every once in a great while I read something that makes me pay attention. In my age these moments are becoming far and few between. If I may I'd like to add this to your comment regarding collective wisdom. Your statement is powerful and I have found that sometimes you have to take it down a notch for the 'masses'. Just as wisdom is not collective, neither is the chewing of your food. I suppose someone could chew it for you but if you accept it then what are you? The action of your hand when it uses a pen to write is not collective. If someone were to stand next to you and tell you what to write, you have the CHOICE, which is a self evident property of the reasoning mind, to not write it, comply, or to simply not write at all. If you exercise choice, there cannot exist a collective anything. Period.