It's part and parcel to Leftism, Authoritarianism, and Collectivism. Both require you to understand yourself as being unable to defend yourself except with the collective whole. Collectivism does nothing but make the individual move his mandate of protection off his shoulders, and place it on someone else.

Even beyond the dependency systems of Leftism, the trend of authoritarianism requires people to reject their own personal responsibility for protection and place it on another. For example, most people don't carry guns, not because they feel safe, but because they expect the police to show up and save the day. The cops almost never do, and never can, and will even tell you if you ask them; but the narrative of "the cops protect us" still gets maintained and spread. Even without a corrupt police force, the truth is that they never could.

Each time you move your personal responsibility onto something or someone else, you lose the capacity to fight for yourself.

• You don't carry a gun, you have police.
• You don't save money for an emergency, you have insurance
• You don't exercise in case you have to fight, you just assume people are good
• You don't educate your kids, you have schools for that
• You don't build contacts, secondary skill sets, or keep an updated resume; you just have unemployment and a union
• You don't need a store of cash, you have a bank's ATM for that
• You don't need a store of gold, you have a 401k for your retirement.

So on and so forth. It's not so much that we're not under threat as a society; it's that we've intentionally created Leftist protection rackets to place our "Mantel Of Responsibility" on, without realizing that those systems are now being directed explicitly against us. People simply aren't used to taking full, personal, responsibility for things. They keep assuming systems and institutions work, because the fear of just how heavy the weight of responsibility seems without those institutions is too much for people to bear. The mask mandates are a good example. People could have easily seen through it, but they were too scared not to succumb to narrative, and too willing to place their trust in institutions that they thought had previously worked.

If you actually take personal responsibility for things, people think you're crazy. Just the things I listed. If you did those things, most of society would look at you like you were a lunatic, explicitly because they aren't used to taking that responsibility.

When did this happen? Basically, the Industrial Revolution. Long story short, the Industrial Revolution introduced human commodification into an already emergent Political Rationalism that was the result of the French Revolution's side of the Enlightenment. As the world was centralized into industrial economies, people were too, and political rationalism probably reached it's insane height with the Positivist movement. There's been blowback, and it's been on the decline, basically, since WW2 as mass centralized industrialization has become less economically useful. We will have to de-institutionalize and re-individuate societies.