They choose the lie of safety & future certainty over the reality of future uncertainty. They choose trust in others over responsibility, which leads to slavery. They would rather trust others than accept that the future is uncertain.
Intuition comes from your subconscious which is heavily influenced by your actions, your beliefs & your perception. People need to clean out a lot of their their accumulated & unproductive programming before they can trust their intuition.
The irony is that if I tap into my intuition, that whole first paragraph can be more holistically reframed. We are spiritual beings, creators of universes, playing with the magic of our creations. While what will be created is unknown, our future existence is more certain than our next meal. Do not fret dear creator, everything is unfolding as it should.