that the main guiding principle that most people use to drive their decision making, on a conscious or (more frequently) unconscious basis, is that they desire to control the thoughts and behaviors of other people.
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this isn't necessarily malignant in all cases (though a whole lot of cases are), just that everyone is a control freak. the baseline attitude of "just let it be" is almost entirely absent in our society.
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I think this is also the source of much of our anguish. I also think we cannot escape this mode of being, all we can do is recognise it when it appears. Sometimes.
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I think it's a powerful social conditioning that is very hard to wake up from, but that it is possible to wake up from and we really must.
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