It is important to understand how our culture’s rules ~which we agree to abide by ~manifest unhealthy stories. The rules for our economic system are based on individual profit maximization. This has a systemic effect on all of us, and creates real barriers to manifesting aspirations other than accumulating wealth. However most people are not aware of the basic rules, their influence on our culture, or their responsibility in crafting and maintaining them.
It seems to me that most of the people I know deeply value and are in awe of the beauty of our evolutionary interdependent co-arising. It is also true that for many of them their life’s choices reflect a personal commitment to a better story than our flawed paradigm bends us toward. However systemic problems cannot be addressed by individual behaviors.
So, it seems to me that it is not for a lack of ‘seeing’ or ‘understanding’ a better story. It is our lack of understanding of how to craft the rules that would better nurture those compassionate stories we lean toward.