I often think of these things. BS is hammered into us, as you say, on all levels. It's insidious particularly when we start doing the job of the ones trying to control us. We belittle ourselves, we diagnose ourselves with ailments and begin to believe that we can't be helped but with meds. We have built-in excuses for every failure and misstep we take, rarely taking responsibility. I wrote on these lines a bit this morning about how we tell ourselves we suck at stuff when we don't know that we do at all, but by labeling ourselves as 'bad' at something, we make it true. Time to start bending the matrix to suit our own needs.