It is very important to understand that these are my own opinions, and nothing else. I want you to read what I have to say, and think about it. Do not agree with me, form your own opinion.
What is reality?
Reality is considered to be one of two things, depending on who you ask. "The apple falls" or "Get born, be assigned a number, money, school, money, job, money, family, money, die.".
Now the question is: which one is the right one? Are they both wrong?, Are they both right?
I consider the world to be built of two parts; the real world and the abstract world. In the real world apples fall because of physics, in the abstract world, economic systems exists because we (collectively) want them to.
However, without us humans the abstract part of the world wouldn't exist. The abstract part of the world is defined by a bunch of collective agreements between the majority of humans.
So - what am I. An anarchist? No way. I don't see anything wrong with the world as it is today, it's a nice temporary solution until we find something better (which we should have by now, by the way). The one thing which bothers me is that parents to children answer the children's question from an abstract point of view. The real world is being lost in all these collective agreements. This is why we have mass destruction weapons but we still haven't even set up our first colony on Mars.
The important thing to remember is that if all humans where to be wiped away, the apples would still fall. Everything I society we call schools, economic systems, work, nine-to-five, etc. would cease to exist.
In my opinion reality is the rules nature has set up for us, but I do agree that the people of today have to learn to do some things which are expected by 'society'. People need to understand that all the "must do's" of society are there because we decided they should be there. Not because nature intended it that way.