I had a very similar experience this week in a birding/environmental group planning meeting. My head was starting to explode as everyone chimed in to supporting a group consensus for a within-the-system game plan. All good stuff, sure, but too little, too late, fighting the last war’s battles and, to my thinking anyhow, a waste of time and energy.
So I was the skunk at the garden party. Everyone nodded and said soothing things to poor old overwrought me, then moved on.