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‘Nudging’ Goes to College
Minding the Campus ^
| May 31, 2015
| Rachelle Peterson
Posted on 06/01/2015 6:35:58 AM PDT by OK Sun
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Nudge seems to be a rehash of a book by Edward Bernays (the propagandist Woodrow Wilson hired to "nudge" Americans to support getting into WWI):
Propaganda.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:35:58 AM PDT
by
OK Sun
To: OK Sun
Cass Sunstein = Joseph Goebbels
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:38:33 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: OK Sun
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:39:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: OK Sun
The only thing worse than stupid individuals making decisions for themselves is bureaucrats making stupid decisions for millions.
At least the stupid person can learn from their mistakes.
The bureaucrat is not affected by his mistakes, and cannot learn.
And, it is anti-freedom to presume anyone else SHOULD make decisions for you.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:42:03 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(ISIS: Islam's Reformation)
To: OK Sun
And lets not forget Sunstein is married to UN Ambassador Samantha (Lets invade Israel) Power.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:42:25 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: OK Sun
Just glancing at this excerpt, it appears that these theorists mistake the woeful plight of contemporary humans — for actual human identity.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:43:15 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: OK Sun
"By nudging people towards the best outcomes, choice architects massage the social atmospheres in which we decide to make it easier for people to make the right, rational choice."
Yet, the "right, rational choice" appears to be nothing more than those choices which conform to the author's arbitrary value preferences. The whole theory is premised on the assumption that their values are "rational" and any other values are "mistakes".
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:48:10 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: OK Sun
George Orwell would understand.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:49:00 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Nimue" - https://youtu.be/NHq7CtM9QMA | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
To: null and void
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:49:17 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Nimue" - https://youtu.be/NHq7CtM9QMA | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
To: OK Sun
They’ve taught this for decades: Advertising 101.
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:50:19 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Uncle Miltie
Right.
When choices are left to individuals, the correct and most profitable path will likely be taken on a MACRO level. While there will certainly be people who choose to walk down the ditches of that path and wander into the woods, the society as a whole will progress in a profitable direction. People will not only learn from their own mistakes but from the mistakes of others.
On the other hand, when you shield people from the natural negative consequences of their actions, the society is not guided in any direction at all (other than the one in which the government leads it).
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posted on
06/01/2015 6:51:45 AM PDT
by
nitzy
(I don't vote for Republican'ts)
To: cripplecreek
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06/01/2015 6:55:42 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: OK Sun
This is the philosophy behind the nanny state in a nutshell.
ObamaCare was the opening salvo under these idiots.
To: nitzy
Excellent points.
The fly in the ointment though is that the government has been so involved in our lives in the last say 40-50 years, they’ve created a huge dependent class needing to be “nudged”.
We are also importing reinforcements for that class by the millions.
To: OK Sun
ONE of the problems is that those who will be deciding what the “best outcomes are” most likely will have a vested interest, just like the politicians of today. I don’t believe this is anything new socialist educators have been in bed with socialist politicians for a long time.
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posted on
06/01/2015 7:05:41 AM PDT
by
duffee
(Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
To: duffee
socialist educators have been in bed with socialist politicians for a long time.
I'm watching a show right now about the ties between the nazi political class and the academic class.
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posted on
06/01/2015 7:07:58 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
That statement by Hillary is a corollary to her husband's reply to someone who asked him after he gave a speech and the budget was being balanced why citizens couldn't then have a tax cut. Slick Willie replied (paraphrase) "we'd like to give you one, but we don't think you'd spend it wisely." Both Clinton's have distinctly fascist leanings as regards economics.
To: OK Sun
they need Nudging............
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06/01/2015 7:11:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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posted on
06/01/2015 7:11:33 AM PDT
by
null and void
(All me life flashed before me eyes. [disappointed] It was really borin'.)
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