All In Our Power

We as a race of humans act on instinct; it is simply our natural ability to do that which we are thinking at the very moment we are thinking it, (Especially America, not to just throw them under the bus), but Americans tend to have a systematic way of doing what they want when they want:now. Freedom may be a right of the American people, but it isn't necessarily a right to be abused, but humans, however, sometimes abuse that power we have of being free. "Free" is such a trivial word, stemming from the fact that is not only a word meaning "enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery" (Dictionary.com), but also an expression of who a person is; when an immigrant or foreigner earns the freedom America has to offer, they seem to all of a sudden become a whole new person. And if we are a free people, how is it that we are not freely accessing all of our own brain capacity? On average, humans use twenty percent of their brain, but, as a Hollywood film suggests, what would happen if we were able to use all of it? Five times as much as we do now could certainly solve world problems and issues in ourselves. Riddle me this, when is it desire, and when is it simply instinct? We've seen our elders buy that, or peer pressure gets to us, and we buy it simply because it seems like the right thing to do, or even just the smart thing to do. I sometimes wonder if humans could even handle themselves using 100% brain power. The privilege of power is already abused now, with dictators, terrorists, and the like, so what would it be like with those beings magnified by five? Would it in fact be worse than it is at present, or would it somehow mellow out and fix itself, because the people would have the knowledge and the way to get out of the present predicament?