They wonder. just not how we do. Like why you are full of so much "hate". Or why you are so selfish. Or why you would endanger your kids by not doing the right thing. Like most things across the dimensional divide those things all exist but it is the perspective that is altered. Typically, an inversion.

Part of the danger of identifying the hivemind is that normal people will often attribute all matters of deficiencies to the swarming cultists.

It makes sense given that daily observation of their odd behavior or their constant droning of their mantras can easily be confused for a myriad of mental deficiencies. E.g., the meme "Covid is not a virus it's an IQ test" feels right but is dangerously off the mark. The cultists did not suddenly become stupid.

The mass formation lens has emerged as a valuable tool for people to understand how their formerly "normal" friends and family seemed to suddenly occupy an entirely different reality.

As well as to further understand how such a worldview is generated in the first place; how it might evolve over time; and how futile it is to address it head-on with facts.

But we should guard against letting the explanatory power of MF swell beyond its domain to become its own kind of magical thinking in how we assess the situation and other people's thinking, motivation, emotional state, capabilities and power to affect our lives etc.

Like many things that the covid response has thrust into the light (and darkness), their emergence is also a matter of perspective for the new observer. These are not new patterns nor perspectives. While you are spot on vis a vis the deficiency of curiosity, the lack of independent thought, and critical thinking in general, these are not components of mass formation. They are the casualties of Progress; the over arching social-political culture that has largely already won the war on truth and normalcy.

When Orange Man Bad showed up nobody was accusing anti-Trump people of being cultists, or lacking in critical-thinking, or curiosity.

Anti-Trump were the smart ones. The Ivy league/NYT/NPR well-informed high-status Citizens. The champions of "Our Democracy".

Yet the anti-Trump cult persists to this day. "Russian collusion". Impeachments. OMB's list of "lies" and "fact checks" tallied daily by the media. The all-in media and tech apparatus working 24/7 to propagate an anti-reality and censor, cancel, and marginalize half of the Nation. The whole "Insurrection" mythology rages on.

It will be a great tragedy, but not unexpected, if the massive toll of Covid awakens so many but not so far as to allow them to see the truth, but rather to be folded into the convenient escape pods like MF.

The useful idiots of history are "useful" to the cause, after all. And their idiocy is not a function of being stupid but rather in their failure to see how the cause will consume everything in the end - including them. And often them first. Cultist, hive minded, anti-reality people are not dumb; they are dangerous. And I know dangerous.