True..it can be a tricky one......also when you consider the collective unconscious and how its eating away at itself mostly from fear of its own mortality. ie. Humans manipulating or killing each through fear of the percieved threat of each other.
Or considered collectively - Humanity is killing itself for the intent of its own survival.
Fucking nuts init
Mushrooms etc.. can be for example used as a tool to journey into the subconscious and learn more about ourselves, or to assist temporary expansion beyond our own habitual thought processes. This as well as assisting us beyond mortal fear, or the shadow of death.
If each individual was to have or even maintain an acute clarity of perception at least for a while and also get beyond their own fear of death then it would be very difficult if not impossible for them to fall prey to external manipulation.
They would probably give less a fuck and would turn things around and create a new life or begin creating a new collective reality because lets face it, this one sucks big time.
Much of our current sociological system is setup to control, manipulate and damn well feed off the masses. Religions, Federal Reserve, general capitalism, dodgy governments and whatever else.
The rich stay rich, the poor stay stupid and up to their eyeballs in mortgage debts whilst blood sweat and tearing their lifes away doing 9 to 5 jobs they dont even like.
Trapped by their own subconscious fears.. not always aware that there is a helluva lot more to life and its mystery than what current sociological or cultural constructs dictate.
just my own 2 quids worths right enough