Very true and it is an unfortunate existence. If you are an outlier you can easily find the verification, from education to the private and even social as so much of our collective society depends on group-think and social cohesion. Social animals and all.....the critical thinker or dissident has always been historically existing on the fringes of society, irrespective of culture or location. As a species we are a sorry lot in many respects. Read Le Bon's The Crowd which was several centuries old and yet it still hold true to this day.