It's all about people not seeing or not wanting to see the world for what it is. Perfectly described through metaphor in The Matrix. Everybody is a part of a crap system that they are, for some reason, unable to see or even comprehend exists. Naturally the people in power want to keep it just that way, damning our entire species for their own perverse little power-games.

Sometimes, the ISS doesn't look like such a bad place to live considering the people who live on our little ball of mud. :/