What good is it to think by oneself if it isn't to arrive to views that wouldn't be given to you by society? If you are right and society is wrong, then you st

What good is it to think by oneself if it isn't to arrive to views that wouldn't be given to you by society? If you are right and society is wrong, then you stand a chance to correct an enormous mistake. If you are wrong and society is right, it is by people like you who argue against common tenets that they become hard to argue against. It's not worth it on a personal level, but very few things short of running for a position are worth it politically on a personal level, it is only on a societal level that they make sense.