The psychology behind mass naivety and why people refuse to believe they live in a society of relentless propaganda and disinformation, and therefore why most people are victims of it, is explored in David Sedgwick's book BBC: Brainwashing Britain?

Are you familiar with that book? I read it with great fascination, surprising Amazon have it on audible actually. Sedgwick confirms what my suspicions are in that, after studying my own parents and my friends' parents who come from a certain self obsessed generation who were and are incapable of understanding the concept of community or country, people believe they are not being constantly lied to because that couldn't possibly happen in Britain, they tell themselves surely not.

It's that very cognitive position that in their own minds the unthinkable is unthinkable and therefore they convince themselves it's impossible that it's actually happening. There's no way it could happen in their minds.

This thinking is further reinforced particularly with that generation, given they are the war generation offspring, as their constant reference to disinformation and mass propaganda is the Nazi machine and the second world war. It's as though they convince themselves they would be able to identify propaganda if they came across it because they know what it looked like in WW2. They don't understand that propaganda takes many different forms.

That is the primary mental barrier which is shared by so many others which has to be broken down.