That you are expecting too much from humans.:) We are simply herd animals. Sit in a field, watch cows living only in the moment, showing lots of passive-aggressive, power-position-petty and all sorts of submissive behaviours. Exactly us in family, school and work settings.

So perhaps the following alternative explanation might interest you>

In his book The Secret Of Our Success, anthropologist Joseph Henrich states that humans evolved to transmit culture with high fidelity. One of the biggest threats to transmitting culture with high fidelity was reason. [...] Historically reason has been the villain of the human narrative [..] so evolution removed those genes from the population and successful cultures stigmatized them enough to give people an internalized fear of even trying.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/

That fits in with what Prof. T. W. Murphy points out* (my summary) that only 10% of humanity consists of logical abstract thinkers (MyerBriggs NT profiles). The rest, the vast majority (the ST-SF gene pool) , are primarily sentients. Extremely short-term-minded -seeing & feeling-is-beliving beings.

* pages 304-308 of Murphy's > https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions