▬ Flaws and the uphill battle of circumventing them

It was a collective effort to turn those descriptors part of the status quo.

I don't believe we're naturally like that - most certainly there was societal conditioning as motor, but how so?
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Human history is stained by bloody-petty conflict, but it was collaboration at first that made them grow to big enough proportions and only then engage in resource wars.
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The narrative that individualize the flaws of human nature can craft a lie with truthful statements.

Systemic cascades of collaborative action brought us to the point of it becoming useful to harm each other.

Us vs them has entered a process of an even deeper fragmentation in order to have wealth and unearned comfort focused on few.

Political interest benefits from waste energy as heat between the populace.

Those are some of many of the background factors that lead the mind to it's state of ignorance as mentioned.
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To focalize the main solution on the individual, blaming on wickedness of an unpolished ego - redirects effort that would be moved towards institutions with power influence the scale that has financial stability on one side and responsible governance at the other.

I mean governance as one part of the superstructure which tackles the issue of undoing the teachings posed by an economical system that transcribes the fault onto the raised-by-propaganda solo character that feels they didn't work hard enough to have the entire system, built on competition, go their way.
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A social animal in isolation is destined to psychological failure even if the material aspect of it's life seems to be going well.

As the world currently operates, it's not uncommon for rich folk to sink in despair after accomplishing much.
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The problem at hand has to be sourced through collective-oriented lens or we're bound to chase things that won't ever satisfy / dignify.

What good does it do improving ourselves only to arrive at the wrong place?