There's something deeper to it. The examples used up front read like any other current events political article, but it does transition.

> If you checked everything you were told from first principles, it would become impossible to talk. Humans are hard-wired to assume that what they hear is true—and therefore, says Mr Levine, “hard-wired to be duped”.

> So strong is that instinct that people suspend their critical faculties when given orders by a superior.