I would conclude: - the default for the vast majority of people is don't worry be happy. This aligns with my life experience - nonconformists by almost tautol

I would conclude: - the default for the vast majority of people is don't worry be happy. This aligns with my life experience - nonconformists by almost tautological definition then aren't happy. That's going to get you placed immediately in the fringes of psych classification. - nonconformists also tend to be smarter, which we know also drops you down the happiness scale - legitimacy of authority is a funny idea, arguably all authority is via direct or abstracted power, despite the ideals of democracy, will be arbitrary and somewhat illegitimate - and thus we get to the contradiction: most people (the "sane" ones) apply a compartmentalization to deal with an insane world: that is they adopt willful insanity to stay sane in a capricious insane world. Those that accept reality and try to change it are "insane" for rejecting the short and long term cost benefits to accepting the big lie for the pure sane truth. - if this were a conscious decision it would be more stark, but kind of like accepting the matrix in the movie, the machines had to adopt a facsimile of the sucky real world rather than paradise, since that had all the subconscious psychological engineering worked out to get everyone to mostly confirm.