Industry Tells Millenials What to Think, And Not Only Do They Comply, The LOVE Their Compliance Premise: my mom asked why on earth people think John Wick is a good film.  This series has almost no plot, it's just Keanu Reeves being the beautiful badass that he is shooting everything for about 2.5 hours straight.  Change my view.  Anyway my answer in a larger context of the conversation about millenials is below Everyone thinks [John Wick] is great because rotten tomatoes gave it a high rating and they are a bunch of bandwagoning zomboids.  Industry tells them what to think, and they've proven to us, in so many disappointing ways, that they 100% comply People don't know what's good anymore. The sensors for critical review, personal evaluation have been bred out of them by the public school system and gen X parents who don't know how to lay down the law.  Their helicopter parenting as a response to their parents perceived absenteeism and latchkey kidness has caused them to become 'crust cutters' and fawning helicopter parents who let their kids walk all over them.  Thus the millenials now 'make neverending demands' about how the world should be, because THEIR parents gave them anythign they asked for in order to placate them.  This was also driven by television marketing to parents, encouraging them to buy things for their kids to shut them up Flash forward We now have a society of kids who demand the world change everything in order to create an anxiety free experience that caters to their whimsy.  Included in that whimsy is that they "feel much safer" being told what to think.  They also want uniformity and equality "of outcome"  (ie; everyone gets a trophy) -- and that's why they're MUCH more comfortable with being told how to think...it's easier to just be given the answer. And because industry has destroyed the famly by attacking the women (encouraging women to work...with feminist movement), and then after that, using women to attack the father (constantly portraying them as homer simpsons that are lazy and worthless, inadequate in some ways...discounting them as some ancillary, 'benign tumor', inert auxilliary of the family), millenials no longer have the capacity to form stable relationships; a community;  and public schools have been pushing secularism and Godlessness (atheism / areligiousness), and so THAT is why millenials worship the GOVERNMENT instead   (Like you said, if you don't believe in God, you'll find some kind of replacement to fill that void--paraphrasing) Destroyign teh family creates isolated singletons; destroying God creates gov worshippers--the result is you create serfs Serfs beg the government to tell them what to think, because it's their only means of achieving order...and the gov will give free things to keep them behaving with a specified conduct