Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior

foxnews.com ^ | 7/30/13 | Maxim Lott

[ColdOne]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/07/30/behavioral-insights-team-document/

[tgusa]

But, 1984 was 30 years ago .....

[ThomasMore]

Clockwork Orange

[GraceG]

Progressives view themselves as human ranchers who manage the sheeple.

[autumnraine]

I promise to never mock Pre-WW2 Germany again.

We are living it and the ones who are awake are helpless to prevent what is happening.

[SMARTY]

F^%$ the government.

They need to get O U T

of everyone’s life.

We only need THEM to conduct international trade, build and train an army to protect us... everything else, is off limits.

ENOUGH!

[fwdude]

The drones will be willingly managed. It’s us conservatives that they have to worry about.

[Uncle Miltie]

GFY BO.

[Sicon]

supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient

And the government gets the authority to do this where, exactly? Someone please point me to that article of the Constitution which grants them the power to make "society" more "efficient".

[RJS1950]

Hey you listeners at NSA.

Register me for a permanent FOAD to any “subtle” pressure your masters try to push on me.

Their free media propagandists apparently aren’t doing their job anymore.

Won’t be long before Il’Douchebag trys to declare himself Fuehrer. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer, is that right you kenyan POS?

[dfwgator]

[Colonel_Flagg]

“Nudge” this.

[Don Corleone]

This just in...”Winston Smith New Propaganda Czar”.

[Maceman]

supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient

It is NOT government's job to "make society more efficient."

The very idea bespeaks an arrogant inhumanity that could only be conceived and pursued by the most cold-blooded sociopathic tyrants.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of such tyrants, who must be stopped at all costs.

“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!” -- Ayn Rand

[RightField]

From the article: "Ultimately, nudging ... assumes a small group of people in government know better about choices than the individuals making them."

Well, what could possibly go wrong with this assumption? /s

[gov_bean_ counter]

Twelve posts in to get to my original thought.

Well played.

[tanknetter]

Social Engineering by another name ..

[Buckeye McFrog]

When the Humbling from the Almighty finally descends upon this crowd it will make the Tower of Babel look like a Sunday picnic.

[KarlInOhio]

Looks like you need a nudge upside your head, cracker!