Posted on 07/30/2013 7:59:40 AM PDT by ColdOne
The federal government is hiring what it calls a "Behavioral Insights Team" that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.
While the program is still in its early stages, the document shows the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal departments and agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
"Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals," reads the government document describing the program, which goes on to call for applicants to apply for positions on the team.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Sure, there's pushback. But they don't have to reach everybody, just enough for (1) an election to be close enough to be stolen; (2) dissent to be marginalized and dissenters ostracized; and (3) opposition to be outlawed. Anyone who thinks this is paranoia hasn't been paying attention to what's happened to "Global Warming Deniers", "Racists", and "Homophobes" lately.
I am about as sick of the endless “Social Engineering” as I could possibly be about anything. P**s on all Liberals, Progressives and any and all of their ilk.
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
Preparing for mind control fits the modus operandi of liberals to a “t”.
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2
Please, look at all the countries in which central planning has worked...
Government schooling let too many minds fall through the cracks.
That is not a joke, either. The Nazis didn’t have a lot of problems recruiting losers to their cause. Give them a little authority and the means of enforcement and you’ve got your storm troopers, gestapo, et al.
I wonder who will be appointed Czar of the new Department of Propaganda?
Past attempts to create New Soviet Man all ended in dismal failure.
A distrust of the current U.S. government is both healthy and prudent.
5.56mm
Not to worry ... they’ll get it right this time.
Promise.
BTW, youtube has several versions of the Donald Duck “In Der Fuehrer’s Face” cartoon. It’s worth watching every now and then.
That’s certainly seems to fit what is happening at the moment....
I need to read that book again. I read back in the 50’s when I was in high school, or maybe it was college......
They always pick nice sweet sounding names for their fascist jackbooted policies.
Community organizing and race-baiting follow the same pogrom...
You nailed it there! Outside the Democrat national convention, you will never see a more wretched hive of peevish, pedantic incompetence than in a government “service” center. Think of your local DMV with weapons and a license to kill.
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Fascists, leave them kids alone
Hey! Fascists! leave them kids alone
Ohio Ping
Social Engineering, Nancy State, Nudge
The federal government is hiring what it calls a “Behavioral Insights Team” that will look for ways to subtly influence people’s behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com.
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