Phillip Zimbardo, Psychologist and Professor in Psychology stated that there are principles in creating obedience, the importance of a legitimate-sounding cover story, a legitimate-seeming authority figure, rules that are vague enough that they are hard to understand or remember and you need a model of compliance that, ironically enough, allows room for dissent.
CAGE have applied these “steps” in creating obedience to the War on Terror in this infographic below; and show how, in fact, the government have been manipulating us to become obedient in this.

 

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