Why do most people prefer being misguided to not being guided?

What type of attention is better:Negative attention or no attention?
One of the things that has become more than obvious is that many people are drawn to lies. When offered options and all are made equally entertaining, truth might be chosen, but veracity of information doesn’t seem that big of a factor.
One of the main reasons for such is that people are often neglected as children and children who haven’t had their questions answered, tend to long for someone stepping in even at a much later stage to fill in the blanks but do so in a nurturing and parenting way to fill the void left emotionally.
It isn’t so much about the information anymore as it is the process of parenting that comes with it. 
This is a main contributor to enabling charlatans to fool otherwise intelligent people into giving them money.
It isn’t about lacking intelligence, but unmet needs. Professional con artists know how to find weak spots and adjust their approach based on yours. This takes place on many levels, news being one.
Figuring what it is that someone is longing for is key. That longing produces undeserved benefit of the doubt towards those who promise to end that longing or parts thereof. 
So are Rh negatives immune to that?
No.
I used to think so that intuition will kick in, but it doesn’t. Not always.
The belief that we come from aliens is a major example. 
A wish to feel special.
Of course, this is not the only contributor to this belief:
Other reasons exist leading individuals down that road. CSA is another huge one. Those sexually abused as children often mask the real events of what happened to them by telling it disguised as a fictional tale. That way it allows them to finally talk about it “without having to talk about it”. Talking about being abducted and “probed” often resembles what truly happened to them, but of course, perpetrators being humans.
A need for attention also comes in and again, it often goes back to not having been given any as a child. 
It isn’t about being drawn to lies as much as to being drawn to a presentation imitating what is craved. If you tell facts, you lose out on the one telling the lie in an interesting and seductive manner.  
More information is underway. The following video will get into more details as there is a connection to “psychics” and how they manage to convince people to come in regularly and give them their money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fHmLtBYYQ
People from all walks of life fall for it, not so much the “information” part, but the attention given to them. Nobody had “guided” them this way before. They long for someone taking them by the hand and telling them what to do.
The importance of parenting can easily be overlooked by those who have had it and do not realize the impact the lack thereof has.