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People of consensus embrace a logical fallacy as their theory of knowledge. They treat group opinion as the determinant of truth. In doing so, they foster second-handedness as their basic psychological disposition: They look to the group to see what they should think, believe, say, and do. And, having done that, they engage in compound second-handedness—seeking your faked agreement with their pretence that social consensus is the source of truth—in order to assuage their guilt for failing to look at reality, use their minds, and think for themselves.

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