I think it is a combination of both would you not SignReader.. having just come back from Pakistan..  it is a classic case of people not seeing what is in front of them to solve the problem. And actually, i could argue it is cultural, people there are terrible planners and thinkers.. both short-term and long-term. I am talking about the educated sector.

I agree it is a form on enslavement.. but how do you change that? The masses do not have the education to do so and the educated are just as much puppets as anyone else..

i think it is true of average people all over the world.. we are all enslaved by a system.

It really bothered me to be there.. and people could not see the forest through the trees.. and begin to change on a grass roots level.. alot of talk and bellyaching not no grass roots level change. And it can change...