As a society we're trained from a very young age to go along with percieved authority figures. People spend more of their waking hours following directions in school than pretty much anything else. Speak only when allowed. Go when where you're told to. Ask permission to go to the bathroom. Then there's very little critical thinking in what is actually taught. Sure some teachers try, but either through apathy or their own tendancy to just go along most teachers [just teach the book answers](https://youtu.be/SFwHQYDqf6c). You have situations where if a kid is a whiz and does a math problem their own way but doesn't 'show their work' the way the book says to they're told their wrong. Most kids inherently want to be praised, don't want to be told they're 'bad' or 'wrong,' and end up never really challenging much unless someone goes out of their way to instill some independence and critical thinking. By the time kids gets through school most have it engrained to go along with the group and/or percieved authorites of the group. Even if independence it's totally drowned out by then, people join the 'adult world' and in most cases end up having to work for someone else, or answer to some licensing board, or follow something else that instills rules or it becomes incredibly difficult to just make a decent living. So few people are ever really learn to challenge things, think for themselves - just go along to get praised, rewarded, and find success - rock the boat and you won't get that. And just going with the percieved authority figures is part of that. That can be real authority figures genuinely working in society's best interests, shitty authority figures that aren't, or non-authority figures that just appear that way because they have a tv show, a vocal support of the large portion of society, or [a lab coat and third parties claiming they're very smart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment).