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 ...
But, 1984 was 30 years ago .....
Clockwork Orange
Progressives view themselves as human ranchers who manage the sheeple.
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.
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!
The drones will be willingly managed. It’s us conservatives that they have to worry about.
GFY BO.
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".
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?
“Nudge” this.
This just in...”Winston Smith New Propaganda Czar”.
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
Well, what could possibly go wrong with this assumption? /s
Well played.
Social Engineering by another name ..
When the Humbling from the Almighty finally descends upon this crowd it will make the Tower of Babel look like a Sunday picnic.
Looks like you need a nudge upside your head, cracker!
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