the way to get away from the hive mind is easy. First, you make a list of all the things you think are right. Second you find out where to find those things in your society, and you make a map of it. Let's say you have 20 things. This is your new world. All the rest of the things don't exist and are fillers.

Now you are free from the hive mind, and what the idiots call a yuppie.

Good luck.