>>I wouldn't know, is it possibly the whole Judeo-Christian culture that has this idea that the people are incapable of doing anything by themselves, someone has to tell them what to do. The cult of stupid masses and intelligent leaders, which somehow arise from those same masses. Which sounds so black/white - the guys with best ideas on what to do in a particular situation may not be the same as those with best people skills, those with best organizational minds etc etc. These gifts may be spread at random. But somehow it's expected that a select few has them all, and the unwashed rest has pretty much none. Not the best use of our resources.
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>I would not bring western or religion into it - just pack behaviour, where the qualifications for being alpha male have been transformed by cultural explosion...

But you just did. The whole notion of alpha male was something restricted to a not-too-important neck of zoology and/or sociology. For all of my decades of living on the East-West edge I haven't heard the mention of it in human relations one single time. Here, I've met the idea a few dozen times, out of which about 4-5 times on UT itself. That, too, is a Western thing.

> The curious part is, that working "mindlessly" as a group sometimes often gives results more notable than the results of thinking individuals working in a way at least partly described by brownian molecular dance.

Except that it's not Brownian at all. Maybe to a mindless observer :). It's live people interacting with each other. Just watch a sidewalk downtown, or a concourse at any station. People themselves manage to get huge number of people transported in the opposite directions along the same routes at the same time, sharing the transportation resources (i.e. paved surface) without any mastermind whatsoever. If it was resembling Brownian movement to any extent, there'd be ambulance all over the place.

So these individuals are actually thinking all the time, or else they would be running into each other, which doesn't happen so often. They're also perfectly capable of organizing into a bucket brigade without anyone telling them what to do. Also, anyone can organize a picnic, a party... by just putting their mind to that.

Come to think of that, I've organized a new year party twice - at age 14 and then at 15 - with a couple of friends helping, and we didn't know a thing about it, but learned as we went. The end result was that we had too much bread (two kilos, IIRC), were short a couple of bottles of mineral water and/or sodas, and had about two bottles of wine too much (but that's because a few people brought their own drinks, which we didn't know was to be expected). So without any experience, we did almost right the first time, and did quite well the next (the party has become sort of famous so we had more uninvited guests next time).

Now imagine if someone said "you can't do a thing because you have no leader". Anyone who'd volunteer or (worse) try to impose himself as a leader would probably be boycotted or beaten. We'd probably split and wouldn't have a party at all :).