The emotions and thoughts of the overwhelming majority are always the same, because their responses are flat and linear.

 Any report prepared in the style of “90% of participants answered … while only 10% chose …” should be read with the understanding that these amounts represent an ordinary majority, and that quantity, not quality, is what is valued. After all, people are all the same, because they lack an inner world vivid and creative enough to set them apart, so their reactions are always identical. Pessimistic thoughts do not necessarily have to bring “depression,” for example. Or someone might be disturbed not by meaninglessness, but by meaning itself—because for them the only meaning is meaninglessness, perhaps. Yet the emotions and thoughts of the overwhelming majority are always the same, because their responses are flat and linear. As a result, the conclusions of such reports speak not to and about the individual, but to and about society. If someone reads them and feels familiarity instead of disgust, they should know that they are not an “individual,” but merely a number among the mass.