It's not just that and I think his message is more accurate than the OP. They want and need the world to be evil but not just because it is a welcomed distraction about their inabilities and so they can outraged. But because they need it to be true to not blame themselves for their failures. I'd bet that often they cannot face themselves in the mirror (metaphorically speaking). It is hard to accept that they were wrong. That all the 'cruel' people telling the real inconvenient truths of the world were right and all the ones that flattered them for their own benefit were wrong. An example would be encouraging someone to pursue the path of a musician or a liberal arts degree versus asking them if they know what they are getting into and are they working 90 hours a week to be as competitive as they will need to be to make it in that passion and why are they even going to college if they want to become a musician and so on.