Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.
For me it was an album, “Nothing is True & Everything is Possible” by Enter Shikari.
There are multiple songs I absolutely love from this album, but when I went to look at more of their songs, they had a completely different vibe.