It is true, it is so difficult to be sure of anything of a cultural, political, or economic nature in this charged age because of the sheer amount of work that is put into preventing understanding.
To approach certainty, it takes understanding the entire system, and perhaps even the surrounding systems outside of our system, in addition to our system, and then the way all of those things change over a long period of time, as well as the data that comes with it. Then of course it helps to understand important works, like Piketty's Capital, and Marx's Kapital for that matter.
Granted, if you are harmed by this general state of affairs, you are more likely to understand it as something to be deconstructed. And this is the rub: if you are benefited by this state of affairs, you are more likely to persist in sustaining it, and rationalize your reasons for doing so. Even further, some that are harmed persist in defending it, while some that are benefited still manage to turn against it.
The legend of the Buddha illustrates this last possibility very starkly. Though it can be difficult to separate truth from legend, there is this general narration agreed-upon by scholars that as the son of a powerful oligarch, the Buddha was visited by prophets that predicted he would become either a great king or drop away from the whole program altogether. Turned out he did the latter.
I'm not sure it takes everyone becoming Buddha-like figures. There is an endless assortment of ideas of what is to be done. The pruning of such wild brush will certainly take place along the strictures of necessity. Doubtless, it is a very interesting time.
