engineered into society by power people
C'mon man! That's conspiracy thinking if I ever heard it. The truth is far simpler, and scarier, people are people just being people. And there are a lot of people trying to navigate a wildly complex world we didn't evolve for, one that's changing at breakneck speed. We almost have to boil our experiences down into more digestible chunks to make sense of it.
This article is so old that the formatting's been trashed, but I think you can parse the order of the text with a little effort. Few things I've ever read gave me a wider view of the world. It was so important to me I saved a PDF a few years back. If you don't like the humor, fuck it, there's still a strong message.
https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
While we're at it, here's another game changer from the same author. I've thought nn this, and observed it, for nearly a decade.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about