@prettygood reminds me alot about the central ideas in "A Brave New World" and how it manages an authoritarian society without the citizens noticing it

the more you are comfortable, the more you will do to maintain that status quo in the short term. Making a better future is hard, unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous.

I think its also a product of the general dumbing down of the populous, the simple minded cant really think beyond what they have been instilled with.