It took me a long time to get to grips with the fact that you can't even take for granted that your own parents act in your best interest. We were all propagand

It took me a long time to get to grips with the fact that you can't even take for granted that your own parents act in your best interest. We were all propagandized with love and kumbaya songs. In reality life is a lot more.. erm let's say self benefit driven with a lot of sprinkles of ego in it. People optimize their language output for their self benefit while actions don't really need to be aligned to get most of those self benefits.