Why we follow

Pilate and Jesus by Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

Now we have the internet, a more convenient tool of research than the library. But there is too much information in either place for the average person to get on top of. That's why folk typically follow a leader who, they muse, has already done the necessary groundwork to satisfy his followers' pique. And so they follow, happily blind to the sordid details and assumed derivation of the underlying rationale. They endure church sermons hoping, yea expecting the minister to have deeper understanding than they, thus setting said minister on the pedestal they have built. And so the rot sets in as they drift, can it really be unwittingly, further and further from the Truth. Well did Pilate query it.