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>Often people are drawn to a group due to commonality in interest, values, ideology. The development sometimes antecedes the identification label.
For intellectual groups, granted. Those are more or less worthy, SHARE groups. Getting drunk at a pub on friday night is a very different kind of group though.
>Google for "The Society of the Spectacle." Pretty high-level reading material unless you're well versed in sociology and social psychology.
I am not, although I often find names existed for stuff I had observed.
>People aren't as brainless as you think. I see them as predictable.
I think predictability is a consequence of lacking intelligence (which brings originality, wit). But yes, I've found lambs so easy to toy with and I do it when I want to get something, but I don't enjoy social interaction for the heck of it much outside geeky online boards.
>I think you perceive average people as below average.
Perhaps I consider the average very shitty and unsuitable. For example, there are relatively few people I could have such an enjoyable discussion as this. All most people ever care about is chit-chat. Girls are all like "I saw John, he was with Cathy, lol"; Guys are all like "Beckam rocks, he kicks spheres in an awesome fashion, lol". They aren't smart enough to understand even the most retarded, VIP-quality jokes I can think of. And manipulating them is simple and kind of fun sometimes, but without a purpose, I don't do it too much.