When does the adult realize the systems that have lived far longer than he has lived, intuitively understand human psychology and have completely and utterly co

When does the adult realize the systems that have lived far longer than he has lived, intuitively understand human psychology and have completely and utterly coopted any conventional agency or power to effect change through reasoned reasonable action he might think he has? The moral adult approaches morality as a matter of thinking but there is no place his thinking can bring him that isn't within reach of the system that owns him. I might be going paranoid.