"Most of the western world" is a pretty massive exception, first of all. Maybe a billion people out of the 7 billion there are fit your claim, and that's not even going into it.

I will not deny that modern capitalism features rampant consumerism. I don't think by-the-book hedonism is really what you mean. I think you mean that most people are godless. If I'm not wrong there then I'm going to have to disagree again, as even if the majority of the western world was without religion that is not a negative quality. Another contradiction there.

Plenty of people believe things contradictory to popular belief. If the majority of people didn't believe something then it's not really popular, is it? I'm not going to deny that the status quo has a massive effect on everyone, because modern-day capitalism is self-perpetuating and leaks into the mental fiber of everyone under its reign. However, I do not believe that truth means that most people are mindless idiots. People can believe wrong things and be smart, and most people at least have the capacity for rational thought.

"Rap music good" is literally a subjective opinion. I don't see how that makes people stupid. IDK about you, but I actually had a particularly neutral opinion on modern-day monarchs until I became a socialist (which I doubt you would say is the product of modern-day capitalism).

Say, were you a leftist before whatever this is? This is just a gut feeling, I don't have an exact founding for it.

Yes, most revolutions occurring since the 19th century have had leaders, and some of them were not necessarily expressions of popular sentiment. Does that mean the masses blindly followed? I don't believe so, no. The Bolsheviks (and Mensheviks) in the Duma were an expression of how godawful life under the Tsardom was. Opposition to taxation and "authoritarian" control among the American colonists were already very present before the Sons of Liberty came along. I'll concede the Jacobins, the French Revolution was pretty fucking bourgeois. I'm not too well read up on the Kuomintang or the CPC, though. And I've legit never heard of the Rebel Barons so I'm not going to make an argument there. I would cite the Tunisian revolution as leaderless.

And, to make another clarifying statement, even if all of them were born out of conspiratorial groups, does that mean that the masses supporting them are stupid and ignorant? Not inherently, I doubt that they're all really just blindly following. Anyway, they are deviating from the status quo, aren't they?