Except for the part that is collective - which you have already referred to, so I know that you believe in that as well. And children do pick up things from their parents, but also from other children, television, books, etc., etc. according to their culture (and subcultures).

The mythological part was just rhetorical.

"It is not that we have created the patriarchy around us. Or the working conditions, or even the dominant culture. What we have done is colluded with it. We cannot mature inside a culture without having internalized aspects of it. Our ability to change our political environment begins with the understanding of how we have helped create it. Our consciousness is where the revolution begins. Fifty percent of the work we need to do is on ourselves. The other 50 percent is to focus outward and use ideas like stewardship to redesign the practices, policies, and structures that institutionalize what we wish to become."

Block, Peter. Stewardship