who influences who... everything is conditionning. You re conditionned, you re conditionning others... the system of life in itself links us with everyone else, everything else. It generated us in the first place. You have to play the game, if you dont the system will ignore/destroy you, especially if you try to destroy it. The system is perfect. It keeps going on and on and on and you cant do anything about it. And we re all changing each others. Everything is change, struggle. Domination, submission. Adaptation. Breeding. Alternate steps. Later in life when nobody cares about you, especially in occident, you end lonely and you have a lot of time to think, remember, connect the dots, finally figuring the "meaning of life". And then you die.
In occident where we can access everything sooner and for longer than everyone else, people get tired of life earlier than ever. Thus trying everything, adultery, sex orgies, homosexuality, drugs, extreme sports, obsessive work in the quest for stardom or money, etc etc. Just to feel alive. To do something. To believe.
Who would have thought this would be the culprit of progress, and "intelligence" ? Being unhappy in the best places in the world where ironically everyone wants to live now...You do the maths if the world ever becomes like north america, europe, well "Occident".