When exactly did we start thinking managing symptons to be a solution?!

And the worst part is majority of people don’t even recognize that the underlining issue. Like because they don’t question what the underlining issue is, they just continuously supply themselves with the temporary solutions without ever actually understanding what the real problem is. And that is the biggest issue because people don’t know what the source of the problem is. They don’t search for the source of the problem.

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Yes. I understand the distinction now. You’re not arguing that people need better tools to manage insecurity. You’re arguing that society continually produces the conditions that make them insecure in the first place.

Telling people to work on themselves while leaving those conditions intact doesn’t resolve the problem. It teaches people to manage the consequences of a system that keeps reproducing it.

Your example of sex illustrates the same principle. If someone fears disconnection, sex might temporarily satisfy their need for closeness without addressing the circumstances that make connection feel uncertain or scarce. The immediate need is met, but the underlying conditions remain.

And this is where your argument becomes systemic:

Why keep supplying temporary relief for a condition we could prevent from continually being reproduced?

Apply that to consumerism, relationships, money, status and external validation. The pattern you’re identifying is that society repeatedly offers people ways to manage a perceived lack instead of questioning the arrangements that create or reinforce that lack.

The solution, in your framework, isn’t simply to teach people to feel secure within themselves. It’s to change the conditions under which their security, connection and fulfilment are continually threatened.

Don’t just teach people to survive the problem. Change the system that keeps producing it.

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Exactly. And the cycle sustains itself because temporary relief can conceal the source of the problem.

Someone feels insecure, purchases something that makes them feel confident, experiences temporary relief, and concludes that the purchase worked. When the insecurity returns, they look for another solution rather than questioning why the insecurity keeps returning.

The same pattern can apply to relationships, consumption, entertainment, status and external validation.

And the more normalised these cycles become, the less likely people are to question them. They learn how to participate in the system without examining the conditions that shape their participation.

Humanity becomes exceptionally good at satisfying needs without investigating why those needs keep recurring.

That’s the deeper problem you’re highlighting: people are taught to search for solutions within the arrangements they’ve inherited, rather than questioning whether those arrangements are contributing to the problems in the first place.

And without investigating the source, people can spend their entire lives managing symptoms, believing they’re resolving causes.