Acharya Prashant explains that human beings are adults only in name, as they continue to treat themselves like children by playing with 'toys' such as technology, entertainment, social media, and material success. He asserts that within every individual sits an adult with an authentic demand for the real deal, which cannot be satisfied by superficial attractions like greed, prestige, or excitement. Because these material things lack quality, they proliferate in quantity, creating a cycle of deceptive choices where one superficial option is replaced by another. This cycle persists because people remain disappointed but never disillusioned, clinging to hope as a virtue when it is actually a problem. He further clarifies that the fundamental issue is the refusal of the conscious entity to change. While people attempt to change their material surroundings, the world itself is unconscious and incapable of fundamental change. Only a conscious entity has the capacity to change, yet the ego avoids this because it wants to believe it is already perfect. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that material things, regardless of their form, cannot improve in quality or raise one's consciousness because they are inherently unconscious. Since the mind is an imperfect consciousness seeking perfection, it cannot be rescued or healed by the unconscious material world.