It seems to me we all go through those "eureka!" moments as we come to terms with ourselves. My teens through early 20's were spent escaping angst - understanding parent/child roles. Later I began to realize the influence of siblings on my personality. Later yet I was able to better understand the effect of siblings on each other. Only very recently, as parents leave the picture and late-life roles solidify have I begun to realize how the complete circle developed and fed back upon itself. I'm old and still figuring it out. For everyone's sake I hope I'm late to the party. 
Anyway, good topic. It's especially relevant for me with recent family happenings.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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