When Values Become Inhibitions

Societies create values to prop up their current state of equilibrium. This is a symptomatic treatment and normally does not address the underlying issues. The values over time turn into inhibitions, restrictions the society imposes into individuals' subconscious.

These subconscious programmings are so strong that even in relatively progressive societies, people are conditioned by certain values that over time and societal evolution become mere inhibitions. Breaking these inhibitions is a painful process. But once broken, a lot of good emerges. Because breaking them involves addressing some of the fundamental underlying issues. True evolution requires such periodic purges of values as they become inhibitions.

The question is, how can these be made less painful.