Yes I agree. As a collective we are currently very conditioned and influenced. Of course we at large allow this and accept it due to a long standing fracture in our collective psyche. The biggest problem amongst the human population is one of lack of self esteem.
Because we think we need to be completed by something outside ourselves, this gears us up for chasing our own tails, endlessly. It is the very nature of consumerism and the destruction of our planetary home.