This is a powerful message, and well written to boot!

I guess it comes down to most humans choosing the path of least resistance- whatever's easiest. If it easier to sit on your couch and eat a packet of biscuits, that's where they are. If it's easier to conform to the government's will, that's where they are. I blame evolution for turning humans into lazy, "follow the heard" beings that will always choose whatever's easiest, even if done so subconsciously.