I remember a Douglas Adams book (one of the hitchhiker's guide books I think, but I can't remember which one) that had a planet where every inhabitant broadcast

I remember a Douglas Adams book (one of the hitchhiker's guide books I think, but I can't remember which one) that had a planet where every inhabitant broadcast their thoughts ESP style, so the planet started playing loud music everywhere to drown out each other's thoughts because they were so horrified to find out what everybody else had been thinking. Of course, it was a funny Douglas Adams throwaway joke, but it got me thinking - if we could actual hear each other's thoughts, would we be horrified or relieved to find out how many people were actually thinking the same things we were thinking? Maybe rather than blocking out each other's thoughts, maybe we'd suddenly get to be more reasonable about each other's thoughts. The internet is slowly creating a world where we're discovering that a lot of the things that we assumed were pretty rare and unusual are... actually pretty common. We can either insist on going back to pretending that the world is a certain way that TV has been presenting it for decades, or start to collectively become a lot more reasonable about how the world actually is.