I was frustrated also until I read Atlas Shrugged and then the unthinkable was revealed to me… they actually do want to be slaves. or in Ayn Rand’s words, they are not interested in ‘living’.

They do not want the responsibility that comes with ‘thinking’ and ‘living’. They want someone, anyone else to take that responsibility and in so doing they abdicate their responsibility, their thinking, their very life.

In essence, they’ve accepted the devil’s terms, they’ve sold their soul in order to resolve themselves if the responsibility that comes with having one.