Aristocrat, what most people call thinking is actually indoctrination. Indoctrination begins at birth and continues throughout our lives. Parents indoctrinate their children, then teacher do, then television does the same heavily funded by the Corporations.

If people were taught to think and question rather than blindly accept indoctrination, then war would vanish overnight (no sane person could condone war). And so would the oligarchs, politicians, Church leaders, billionaires, inequality, etc.

We need to employ a new paradigm, use our intelligence for a change.

Don't be defeatist!

David G, you keep mistaking the effect for the cause.
Your utopian fantasies mean little in the world of biological and cultural realities.