Why is everyone so common?

Question

Nowadays, I run into common, typical people all the time.

It's not often that I run into anyone who has something different to offer, someone that can think for themselves, who has an opinion, etc.

Why is everyone so common?

Answer 1

because people are sheep.... if someone says that you don't fit in, other people will also say so, and it's also hard to find a person strong enough to stand up for what they believe in....  

Answer 2

the gene pool has become too shallow

Answer 3

it depends where you live at.

my recent trip to NYC was an eye opener

Answer 4

I'm the antithesis of what you just wrote and because of this I'm a "rebel" or a "freak". It depends what you want them to offer you in terms of value anyway. The underlying cause is bad logic and general apathy past fitting in.  

Answer 5

Because people like me who's different, receive no respect.

Answer 6

You may be have your "reticular activation" set towards normal people.     You could be not seeing the non-normals because you have an aversion to them.  If you got to know me, you would realize I'm not normal, and at about the same moment you would realize that you don't want to know me.  Read up on reticular activation and think of how it could work in reverse.

Also, the statistics are set that way.  Take the briggs-meyers test that will rate you as nlfp or etc.  You'll see that most personality types are very common with large percentages of the population fitting into them.  And there are a few types so rare that only 1 out of every several hundred people you meet will be in that category.  You may also realize that you don't even know 100 people.  So there you go.

Now, why is it that way in the first place?  Easy.  It's the natural process.  I think we all start out somewhat the same.  (I believe in both nature and nurture)  And then we all work on surviving emotionally.  We all start with the same basic technique.  It works for most people and they stay in that mode for the rest of their lives.  It doesn't work for some others based on their circumstances and they go over to a different method of emotional survival.  That process keeps occurring.  That's why you'll find 50% of the population to be "feelers", 25 to be thinkers, 25 to be drivers, and about 1% to be something else.  Each type has strengths and weaknesses and they are proportioned across society in just the right way for everything to flow the way it does just like nature dictates.

Answer 7

If there were no common people a unique person wouldn't stand out much would they?