>>54
Eh, religion is for people who feel a need for cosmic closure. If you enjoy that kind of thing good for you, you know?
>>53
Sharing a personality. lol. The mathematics don't quite work out that way. I still don't see how self-actualization is superior. (Maslow was a douche, by the way). Often people are drawn to a group due to commonality in interest, values, ideology. The development sometimes antecedes the identification label. You're unique only until you find out there's a name for what kind of person you are. Something to that effect.
Uninhabited island. Damn, where would I get my booze? Distill it from dead sea turtles?
Google for "The Society of the Spectacle." Pretty high-level reading material unless you're well versed in sociology and social psychology.
People aren't as brainless as you think. I see them as predictable. They inevitably fall into patterns of behavior and cognition. If you make them aware of this fact they will do anything in their power to prove you wrong (and vindicate their belief that they are unique), which is a pattern in itself. I personally don't mind this. It's great for making friends, pissing off idiots, wooing the girls, and getting business hookups. In this way I find myself objectifying average people as almost algorithmic. They have comfort zones which limit their range of behaviors. Makes social interaction very rewarding...at least for me.
In conclusion, don't hate--manipulate! Your views are far more extreme and are shaded with availability heuristic judgement than mine, but essentially we agree on a few points:
Average intelligence is not very high. (In fact, it's average. Duh.)
Average people rely heavily on social constructs. (Everyone does in different ways, depending on disposition, culture, Collectivism vs Individualism, etc)
I think you perceive average people as below average. Your illustration of the distribution shows this. In actuality, statistical laws dictate all observations will regress towards the mean. Additionally, any sufficiently large sample follows the Normal distribution.