Part of it is the education system too, designed after the Prussian schooling system, which was designed to create obedient soldiers after Prussia lost the Battle of Jena in 1806 due to poor obedience. Then they became super-obedient and prussia grew to a huge size and the model of schooling was re-tooled and copied for US schools, to make obedient workers for the industrial system. This system has been perfected. Education is 80% about obedience training, and 20% about learning.

But yes also the pills and drugs and tv and internet... a lot of people don't question things out of fear because they'll lose their jobs or friends. The real tragedy is how fragile people have become, which is probably because of a life of high comfort... hard times build strong men, strong men build good times, good times makes weak men, weak men make hard times....

Zerohedge has a right-leaning bias, but most media has a left-wing bias, so in reality it getting banned is just a matter of tribalism, rather than the matter of factual correctness the reddit admins assume it to be.