You are right, these seeds are planted throughout our lives and our instinct is often to follow the group as this our security. The older people are usually seen as the authority figures too and as our schooling system turns more towards teaching us to obey authority and rules we are more open to influence than if taught to think for ourselves. That is another thing that I appreciate about the school I went to. We were guided rather than schooled.

Thank you for your thoughts. 😊