because most don't have an individual identity (prolly some form of trauma at early age).
they don't trust themselves and because they don't want to take the time to inventory themselves they defer or prostitute themselves out to images such as brain dead academics, MSM, evil fucks like Gates/Fauci/psudo science and the State to do their thinking and feeling for them.
think about that, the State, which has been composed of thugs, liars, cheats and thieves pilfering off the worldwide taxpaying community, committing treason by selling America tech to China for wealth and power and the sticking it up the ass of poor and the vulnerable. they've become so good at it via blackmail, bribes, assignations, that they make the mafia look good.
it's quite disgusting to witness as the Marxist globalist cartel agenda will make them slaves moar than they already are.
eventually their heads will explode, once the vail is lifted knowing they've been sold a rotten bill of goods thinking they were the most trustworthy gifts to mankind.
then perhaps they'll recognize their part and realize how absolutely fucked up they were for allowing themselves be swindled out of their own freedoms that, they, themselves were responsible for!