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Deleted UK Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves To "Conform"

https://summit.news/2021/10/22/deleted-government-report-celebrates-how-public-loves-to-conform/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/10/22/report-corona-shows-public-have-deep-set-reverence-for-govt/
https://summit.news/2021/05/17/report-government-scientific-advisors-admit-they-used-totalitarian-fear-tactics-to-control-people-during-pandemic/

A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its
behavior to accept the new ‘green economy’ reveals how COVID-19
restrictions have created a population with a “deep set reverence” for
authority and a “powerful tendency to conform.”

The report was inadvertently published by the British government
before being hastily pulled down, but numerous journalists were able
to retrieve its contents.

The document explored how to weaponize behavioral psychology to
‘nudge’ the public into supporting measures and adopting behavior
without them explicitly knowing they’re being manipulated.

The investigation found that the same techniques the government used
to force people into accepting lockdown could be used to make them
change their lifestyles in the name of preventing climate change.

Under the heading “principles for successful behaviour,” the paper noted;

    “Government statements, actions and laws powerfully shape
perceptions of normative and acceptable behaviour. For instance, even
with public criticism being high, many still perceived government
approval as the yardstick for safe behaviour during COVID-19 ‘we’re
allowed to do this now [so must be safe]…’. This reveals, for many, a
deep set reverence for legitimate government authority, regardless of
one’s personal political views.”

While PR stunts such as having officials vaccinated live on television
worked to convince people of the narrative, elite hypocrisy (public
officials violating lockdown rules) was found to cause significant
damage to public trust.

    “Perceived hypocrisy can do a lot to undermine efforts to build
public engagement and support. This was observed during the COVID-19
pandemic when prominent authority figures broke guidelines, leading to
measurable reductions in public compliance as well as shifting
attitudes.”

“Green politics has similar deep-seated reputational issues with elite
hypocrisy,” notes Breitbart.

    “A common feature of climate change summits has been high-profile
attendees arriving by private or government jet, a disconnect between
word and deed that seems unlikely to vanish in the near term.”

The paper concluded that people can be rather easily “nudged” into
changing their behavior in response to government announcements and
“have a powerful tendency to conform.”

The investigation also found that even if enforced changes to
lifestyle are not wanted by the public, most tend to fall in line with
the new status quo rather quickly anyway.

The report was prepared by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a
quasi-government body that was part of the effort to use
“totalitarian” and “unethical” methods of instilling fear into the
population as a means of scaring them into complying with lockdown
rules.

A related group, the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours
team, warned at the start of the first lockdown that a “substantial
number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened
[by Covid-19].”

    “The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased
among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional
messaging,” the group added, leading to numerous lurid propaganda
campaigns that exaggerated the threat of COVID to bully the public
into total submission.

In summary, the public is largely unthinking, compliant and docile and
can be made to go along with just about anything so long as they’re
bombarded with the right propaganda.

Wonderful.