This is something very poorly understood by humans but still much of our culture is about collective consciousness in many different form. As our leadership is hijacked by criminals, so is our culture is hijacked by the same criminals. Whatever understanding of collective consciousness we have is directed to the support of existing hijacked hierarchical structure. Mostly this relates to religion and patriotism. Both religion and patriotism are directed to support MIC and ideas of war, competition and dominance. Currently, most damaging to our collective consciousness is terrorism which is in large extent secretly promoted and guided by agents of MIC. Revealing these secrets would help healing our collective consciousness.
MIC = military-industrial complex