There is a really good book that touches on some of these topics: “Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants w

There is a really good book that touches on some of these topics: “Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.” ― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (or The Fear of Freedom in another translation)