Groupthink and pitfalls thereof

Starship Troopers and Ender's Game both argue that individual thought is better than group centered thought. The bugger enemies in both have a hive mentality with centralized control (hmmm, anyone find that suspicious? That both Ender's Game and the Heinlein novel that Starship Troopers is named after both have bugs as the bad guys? Hmmmm)