At first sight, your opinion — which is an opinion shared by many — seems right. After all, we are all the product of the environment, the society we live in.

But when we start examining the cause and effect chains in history and in human development in general, an uncomfortable question arises: who, what built our societies, civilizations? From where do those leaders, influencers grow out?

And if we examine it honestly we find that our civilizations, societies are built and sustained by the same inherent human nature that drives all of us. Thus the cause and effect chain turns on its head and it drives us into a corner.

We will never achieve anything by pointing fingers at certain people, certain ideologies, systems. We are all born with the same nature and in the “right” conditions, circumstances, through the “right” influence, we can all become exactly the same as those we like to blame for our misfortunes.

If we need actual proof of this we can look at studies like the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and others.

We all built and we all actively sustain the egotistic, selfish, exploitative Matrix we live in. And only when we all change - willingly consciously, methodically — can we truly change the world for the better.