I somehow didn't get the message as you did, it seems to me that he is saying that we are brainwashed to be average and to follow the crowd and working at a job

I somehow didn't get the message as you did, it seems to me that he is saying that we are brainwashed to be average and to follow the crowd and working at a job to earn a living is one of the notions that have been put in our head during our brainwashing.