A better question is "How?" With mind-control beams? Face it, a lot of folks just don't see the value in it. My BIL is one such guy. He just doesn't see any reason to invest money into preparedness. If something THAT bad happens, he figures the emergency responder types (aka government folks--FEMA, military, police, etc) will handle such problems.
You could argue that government has made us soft and expectant as a people, but these are individual choices being made. Very unwise individual decisions.
A better question is "How?" With mind-control beams?
To be honest, yes, it's mind-control beams. And they emanate from every cable TV box in the nation.
Think for a moment: the hoopla about "Doomsday Preppers", and the message that's so simple: "preppers are right-wing nut-jobs". Even the link that Kartographer posted has comments from chem-trail junkies and ZOG alarmists, and it bears out the established stereotype.
We are surrounded by zombies, my FRiends. They are created and sustained by daily doses of mind-control from the one-eyed babysitter. And we are outnumbered 300 to 1.