This is a brilliant piece of writing, the best thing I've read in weeks!
Being as messed up as I am, I don't have any answers for any of this...
I would like to make a couple of comments, though. Where you stated, " a country that schools us to be good workers yet fails to teach us to think critically or survive independently?" I would have to suggest that being schooled to be a good worker, and being taught critical thinking are at opposite purposes. A person who uses critical thinking with any regularly is seldom a good worker in the system. They realize that they are being screwed over by a work system that only exploits them and gives then the least possible return for their effort.
As for the paradigm shift, most people don't actually want to change the system, they just want to have control of it for themselves. Such is the selfish greedy nature of most human beings. I personally think the world is full of sociopaths, and the ones who aren't are damaged by the system in one way or another.