"Why do we continue to act like herd animals or a wolf pack
or a band of baboons instead of using our intelligence to
think and act for ourselves?"

It's funny you should ask.
I was thinking today of making a post regarding whether people thought that having a captain of a ship was really necessary.
Yes, I was rather bored.

The question was, since it's common [universal] to have a captain of ships, what did people think the reason was for this [E.g- bad habit or mere tradition, or was it *actually* necessary- there was no other practical way of running a ship.

But I didn't think that anyone would really argue that ship captains were not actually needed, so I sort of lost interest.

I will say, that your idea is consistent with socialism, therefore should "theoretically" be common for people to hold these rather non-thought out ideas.