>I am pretty sure the events in our life are tied to our conscious and unconscious desires much more than society implies, and many people are getting exactly what they desire unconsciously without knowing it.

Such a powerful and well crafted statement.  Right on.  There are a lot of evil people out there learning to manipulate the subconscious and directing our decision making to where they benefit and we are often blindly doing this without realizing that it is not to our benefit.  The Hummer example is one of the best that I've seen of late, and it is only one in thousands that have affected many, many people.  There will be those that cling to the thought that the vehicle is the best one ever made, etc.   But they are often just more gullible to influence peddling and after purchasing a $50K+ hunk of steel, realize that it is impossible to park, costs way too much to drive, doesn't make practical sense, etc. and after 12 months or so, are dumping it back on the used market at 50% of what they paid, and taking that negative debt load on to the next vehicle.  For those of us who specifically want that car, as we might have a use-case that suits it, then you can play this human fail to your advantage and buy someone else's mistake at 50% discount.  But the truth is that these vehicles never saw dirt or off-road usage - the entire reason they were sold as a "this car can go anywhere" kinda thing, and yet they are driven by soccer moms that just want to park at Wholefoods.  We see this dichotomy all the time - they want to be all green and "save the planet" but you look in the parking lot at the supermarket that prides itself in not giving plastic bags to customers at the checkout, only to find the mom who is buying the groceries for the family takes those groceries into a vehicle the spews more pollution into the atmosphere than is needed, and typically 90% of the time there is 1 person being transported in 8,000 pounds of steel down the road.  How this makes any logical sense to anyone is beyond me.  That's where you look at human decision making and realize we are being played here.