We're a civilization of drug addicts, addicted to that hit of chemicals -- we as a species have always been like this, but the environment that we have created

We're a civilization of drug addicts, addicted to that hit of chemicals -- we as a species have always been like this, but the environment that we have created for ourselves is not engineered properly in that it does not regulated that hit properly. Good parenting is not going to fix that, it might delay it. But kids grow up and then they buy and do whatever they want, learning self-regulation is difficult if not impossible in the candyland our desires have created.