develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom instead of promoting a commercial culture whose logical terminus are the Wall-E people.[1]

Practical first step would be to return to Humboldt's model of education[2] and to not devalue to arts and humanities at every opportunity.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yw7WAq_GZY8/hqdefault.jpg [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...

> develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom

But you don't have to wait for the entire world to change for you to treat the people around you this way.