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Why not use commentary from the field as a good exposition of how to respond? As follows:
"If one has ever seen some of the, man on the street videos, where young people are asked simple questions about our government and history and the answers they give.
Oh boy, I would say their dumb down program is working perfectly !!!"
Thank you for your comment. I would say younger people have ALLOWED THEMSELVES to be conditioned in this way just like their parents have allowed it before them. And just like their children will do one day too.
It's not a fair analysis to say the state or a cabal of wealth and power have conditioned them. Or manipulated them. Or coerced them.
For every choice anyone of us makes, "I am" the final arbiter in that choice. Yes, when I am uninformed, I have a tendency to submit to authority - by making an appeal to it, and accepting their wisdom prima facie, rather than doing the right thing which is to FIND OUT. And if I cannot find out within reasonable doubt, to exercise extreme caution, or even abandon it altogether.
That is called free will. Submitting to authority is obedience. And that obedience is a free choice ironically. And yes, this makes most of the world, an obedient one. But it was a choice and was never even once forced onto anyone.
If one is religious one could think about this radical possibility:
'God does not want your obedience. He wants your autonomy'.
Think about it. A lot falls into place that before now was a paradox. God gave us freedom to choose. So why does he want our obedience? For me this clearly undermines the institution of Christianity, not Christ though who delivers eternal meaning - but the INSTITUTION is the same one we call AUTHORITY on the earth. Right? A power structure, using obedience, at scale, for control. And we all submitted to it willingly.
I've yet to find anyone who can show me, from cradle to grave, the mechanism authority uses to reach into anyone's mind and change it against their will.
The best I've got so far is: "authority is power so people obey" or I believe it, so it is true. That is circular reasoning. It does not show in any way whatsoever the mechanism - be it telepathic, telekinetic or whatever psychic method, is used to change a single person's mind. No proof at all it happens. Yet there's every proof we are all willingly obedient.
This is radical and even heretical. Because it means I can no longer blame a cabal of wealth and power for my problems or the fast growing excess death toll. I created this world, it belongs to me. All of it. And I had every opportunity to resist. I don't think its reasonable to 'let off' weak people like this - as Dr. Yeadon tends to do, if we are all collectively at the root of the excess deaths. That is, every cabal does exactly what we ask for so why are we blaming them? Because it makes for an easy escape! I can sin. Blame it on the leader I selected, exactly for this purpose. I elect the cabal deliberately to help me escape from my complicity in the problems I complain about. Like a spoiled child but by adults? So you can see the heresy in it.
Yes, people are obedient to authority. But not due to corrupt force. And by choice. Because everyone knows, by intuition, that if they signal well to the tribal narrative they will be highly rewarded. The better the signal, the higher the reward.
And woe betide anyone who signals against the tribe, for they will be punished heavily, not by authority, but by the tribal constituents who see them as a serious threat to the tribe. All the way to exile and sometimes death as we see with cancel culture.
It works! So to call anyone who disagrees with you, irrational, especially if you're right, is not rational. And to call those same people irrational is a terrible mistake scientifically - clearly they are acting with a high state of rationality. Tribal epistemology works! It might be technically wrong, but the tribe takes priority because it rewards for obedience and that matters far more within social organisation.
This is the primary hypothesis I've been investigating for 20 years now. I called it 'obedience theory'.
Do you understand it? Does it make sense? What are your objections, suggestions and clarifications?