Believing in a mirage
We as individuals, as a society, as a culture, as a race of beings have been intentionally misinformed and mislead. We have been presented with a mirage that we have believed in and have run after.
This mirage can be summed up as ‘Western Civilization', beginning around a thousand years ago, although it's roots as a concept and philosophy go back even farther than that.
We have gone down the wrong road and the only thing that will save us from the natural consequences of our mistaken beliefs and ideas is for us to ‘turn around' and head back towards where we once belonged.
Even when we begin to see through the delusion that has been foisted on us, we have to realize how deeply the roots of this deception actually go.
We may recognize it and repudiate it with our conscious mind but it's influence reaches deeply into our subconscious and unconscious mind as well where it is difficult, if not entirely impossible for us to get at it on our own.
The limits of psychoanalysis are obvious. Whereas it's ability to shine a dim light on these depths are understood, it's ability to purify, illumine and actually heal what is lurking in these same depths are questionable at best.
The word, ‘repent’ means quite literally to ‘turn around' from the direction we are going in.
And the ‘Noetic Prayer of the mind in the heart’ is a method of contact and communication with the Creator of the Universe, who sees and has the ability to help us to uncover and change what is so deeply hidden within ourselves.
These two combined with the reception of the Sacraments provided for us in the Orthodox Church, which are the most powerful ‘Spiritual Medicine’ known to Man, work together synergistically as a course of therapy that has the ability to restore us entirely to our Original Blessed State and to raise us up from there into the gods we were meant to become from before the beginning of time.
It is no exaggeration to say that all of our troubles in this world come from believing in mirages and acting accordingly; from taking this temporary and extremely limited framework that we have become familiar with and thinking that it is the Be-All and End-All of life rather than a place that we have been given to prepare to enter into life proper.
“Prepare Thyself in the vestibule before entering the Banquet Hall.”
Whilst i agree with the mirage analysis and the surface conscious rejection analysis entirely, going back is not feasible. The evidence is abundantly clear - natural movement is ever changing, ever evolving, ever ‘forwards’ (forwards in our perception at least)
We are literally never in the same place again. Where i am having breakfast now is not where i’ll be having breakfast tomorrow. Even though it’ll be the same chair etc.
Back is also an illusion. We need to get to somewhere we haven’t been before.
And before western civilisation, there was plenty of brutality. So it doesn’t all start with just us.
Have a read/watch of Jidhu Krishnamurti for an interesting exploration into much of what you are describing, minus the solution.