I am intuitively hardcore committed to a (generalized) idea of epistemological individualism over communal epistemology and I just want to know what that makes me in the broad landscape that is philosophy

I think that people are simply too dumb, too unreasonable, and too prone to mob behavior for any form of communal epistemology to be viable. Very smart people can also be very dumb and unreasonable, and they are not a viable substitute for individual epistemology.<br><br>I don't think it matters who you are or what your credentials are: you have a responsibility to inspect your beliefs yourself, and have a hard critical look at them, against the standards of the human experience and of evidence. That responsibility cannot by abdicated, whether for good or for ill.<br><br>Look around you and witness the decay of any form of communal epistemology we have.<br><br>So, what does this make me? Is there a philosopher or a philosophy that articulates this position well?<br><br>**edit:** I said in the comments that I would reply to comments after I'd gone through them all. Well, I've gone through them all, and I've written around 4000 characters worth of response, so it looks like that's going to be a separate post. More details forthcoming.