As an analogy to understand the illusionary aspects os self, meaning and purpose, they do. In more pratical day to day living terms, i guess people would prefer a good dream rather than a bad dream.
This actually could be said about a lot of the military personnel of New Eden, even the civilian population. Actually, this is the most part of Humanity.
Lot´s of people enjoy being cogs that fit in and are productive, yet, ignore the grand scheme of things or consider the machine they´re part of or the result of it´s production.