Do you see culture as a current too?
Humanity drifts along on the current of culture, propelled by hazy upstream forces.
If you're lucky, you'll slip out into an eddy just long enough to notice the world go by and you'll come out of it with a new perspective, which your mind will linger upon.
You'll swim against the current to get back to the eddy - anything to return to the liminal calm of the eddy.
Now awakened to the current of culture, you‘ll wonder who else is too.
Meditation helps. You get to a place above the noise of culture.
You no longer must react to the low hanging fruit. You are liberated.
Emotions become mere punctuations of life, but are less controlling.