Nudge and behavioural science should be disclosed wherever it is used. I shudder every time someone mentions "choice architecture". If people are being psychologically manipulated into a decision regarding their health or governance, then the people have moral a right to know when they are being manipulated and we need a legal right to protect us in the future.
Maybe Tommy doesn't see the flag as an "overt display of jingoism", but rather as a symbol of the values he holds. "Values first" and the flag as a symbol of the values. Maybe that is also why the U.S. flag is often used around the world as a symbol of freedom from every sort of tyranny. A symbol not so much of nationalism, but of the potential of free individuals.
Granted, our government has not lived up to those values, but I think that to a lot of people, and not just Americans, the flag represents those ideals.
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Cass Sunstein was in the Obama Admin, who took a lot of heat for a recommendation he made for empowering secret government influencers to patrol social media and try to direct the conversation in a way the government wanted. It was a purely authoritarian impulse, manipulating people in secret, which was a warning to anyone paying attention, of the authoritarianism in the heart of the Left, which unfortunately not a lot of people noticed.
They talk about the nudge on public radio in such an innocuous way. In practice around Covid their nudge took on a kind of desperation mixed with unimpeachable arrogance, wielding their nudge like trebuchet, lobbing volleys of shame and separation, demoliting social cohesion.
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Are we not continually nudged, starting with our parents who were themselves nudged to get a job, pay taxes, and obey? Our friends nudge with peer pressure. The media nudges with continual programming. The police nudge with night sticks and fines. In school we're nudged to get that gold star. Religion nudges you into their ideology of belief. Continually we are shaped and slapped around to produce the right answer for whatever the authority demands.
If you question authority you're nudging them and they'll schedule you for directed, intensive, and insistent nudging. The initial soft nudging by cultural engineers is a suggestion that can escalate into a demand for compliance with the threat of prison.
As a social control mechanism, technology applies subtle invisible nudges to population masses, while monitoring and measuring the effect on individual units. As necessary, more targeted shocks can be deployed.
The result is Utopia where everyone thinks the same because dissent is crushed. Happily, it's all for our own good.
The nudgers are being nudged over the cliff. Facistbook has all kinds of excuses why its share price dropped like a rock. Same with Twaddle.
But we all know a big reason they have: they nudged themselves out of being seen as the source for “the other side of the story”.
The very good thing about the last two years is the huge reduction in childish credulity among a sizable segment of the population.
I woke up to the media propaganda game in the 1970’s. I won’t say I haven’t been fooled in the intervening decades — wisdom is, after all, cumulative. But a healthy dose of intelligent skepticism has served me well.
It’s my hope that lesson has a bit broader appreciation as a consequence of two years of blatant bullshit.
Am I the only one wondering about the graph that reads the peak of the bell curve for women’s height to be around 5’4” (sounds good) and men’s height to be around 6’8”? Meanwhile I appreciate the mental exercise here, I queued the book Nudge on my reading list
Interesting. If anything I have learned from the past 3 years is that those in leadership 1) will use any means necessary to convince people 2) they don't care about you. My desire has been to figure out their game, so I can become as good as them and win. I want the side of good to win.
Thank you for explaining in detail how the peer pressure (nudge) we all felt works. Have linked to your substack in my substack re an aussie perspective. To quote a good Doc and outlier of "concensus" medicine shoved on us by the Nudge Nerds. "READ THIS" (if you want to stand a chance of understanding what is happening and who -or rather WHAT - is controlling your narrative) https://feesgarden.substack.com/p/the-nudge-sequel-first-nudge-nudge?r=sldla&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks for teaching me about the nudge with some good graphs. I also enjoyed seeing how systems can go bimodal. Here is a thought for you, which in working on the implications.
Which I think epigenetics is key. Mass vaccination as a policy will always fail to achieve better public health because adverse reactions are non-normal processes.
I also think these mRNA jabs are non-ergodic nightmares which we are watching their awful effects continue to unfold. I think the migration of the nano particles into the organs is starting to occur whose effect is pronounced in boosters as described here is one of the non-normal effects that would either be dismissed as coincidence if observed in early testing.
I watch UK Column news to bypass the obscene propaganda broadcast by the BBC et al. So they enlightened me about the Mindspace document and the part of the government that you refer to. Apparently using psychological ploys on an unsuspecting population to cause untold mental, societal, physical and economic damage is something the UK is willing to share worldwide.
Here's a fun read - Page 1 section 2 - Persuasion.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22032020.pdf
Nudge and behavioural science should be disclosed wherever it is used. I shudder every time someone mentions "choice architecture". If people are being psychologically manipulated into a decision regarding their health or governance, then the people have moral a right to know when they are being manipulated and we need a legal right to protect us in the future.
excellent, and you presented this clearly, which I appreciate
Maybe Tommy doesn't see the flag as an "overt display of jingoism", but rather as a symbol of the values he holds. "Values first" and the flag as a symbol of the values. Maybe that is also why the U.S. flag is often used around the world as a symbol of freedom from every sort of tyranny. A symbol not so much of nationalism, but of the potential of free individuals.
Granted, our government has not lived up to those values, but I think that to a lot of people, and not just Americans, the flag represents those ideals.
Cass Sunstein was in the Obama Admin, who took a lot of heat for a recommendation he made for empowering secret government influencers to patrol social media and try to direct the conversation in a way the government wanted. It was a purely authoritarian impulse, manipulating people in secret, which was a warning to anyone paying attention, of the authoritarianism in the heart of the Left, which unfortunately not a lot of people noticed.
They talk about the nudge on public radio in such an innocuous way. In practice around Covid their nudge took on a kind of desperation mixed with unimpeachable arrogance, wielding their nudge like trebuchet, lobbing volleys of shame and separation, demoliting social cohesion.
Are we not continually nudged, starting with our parents who were themselves nudged to get a job, pay taxes, and obey? Our friends nudge with peer pressure. The media nudges with continual programming. The police nudge with night sticks and fines. In school we're nudged to get that gold star. Religion nudges you into their ideology of belief. Continually we are shaped and slapped around to produce the right answer for whatever the authority demands.
If you question authority you're nudging them and they'll schedule you for directed, intensive, and insistent nudging. The initial soft nudging by cultural engineers is a suggestion that can escalate into a demand for compliance with the threat of prison.
As a social control mechanism, technology applies subtle invisible nudges to population masses, while monitoring and measuring the effect on individual units. As necessary, more targeted shocks can be deployed.
The result is Utopia where everyone thinks the same because dissent is crushed. Happily, it's all for our own good.
How to use the "frog in hot water" phenomenon for fun, power and profit.
FUD + FOGS = Control
(Fear Uncertainty and Doubt + Fear Obligation Guilt and Shame)
Nudging vaccine compliance:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/manipulation-guilt-shame-vaccine-compliance/
The nudgers are being nudged over the cliff. Facistbook has all kinds of excuses why its share price dropped like a rock. Same with Twaddle.
But we all know a big reason they have: they nudged themselves out of being seen as the source for “the other side of the story”.
The very good thing about the last two years is the huge reduction in childish credulity among a sizable segment of the population.
I woke up to the media propaganda game in the 1970’s. I won’t say I haven’t been fooled in the intervening decades — wisdom is, after all, cumulative. But a healthy dose of intelligent skepticism has served me well.
It’s my hope that lesson has a bit broader appreciation as a consequence of two years of blatant bullshit.
Am I the only one wondering about the graph that reads the peak of the bell curve for women’s height to be around 5’4” (sounds good) and men’s height to be around 6’8”? Meanwhile I appreciate the mental exercise here, I queued the book Nudge on my reading list
"Too much to take" in what sense? Mental health issues arsing, social disruption or they wake up and realise what's going on?
Germ Warfare had a great podcast on this too. Patrick Fagen.
Interesting. If anything I have learned from the past 3 years is that those in leadership 1) will use any means necessary to convince people 2) they don't care about you. My desire has been to figure out their game, so I can become as good as them and win. I want the side of good to win.
Thank you for explaining in detail how the peer pressure (nudge) we all felt works. Have linked to your substack in my substack re an aussie perspective. To quote a good Doc and outlier of "concensus" medicine shoved on us by the Nudge Nerds. "READ THIS" (if you want to stand a chance of understanding what is happening and who -or rather WHAT - is controlling your narrative) https://feesgarden.substack.com/p/the-nudge-sequel-first-nudge-nudge?r=sldla&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
No amount of nudging will make me take the vaccine. I had already determined through a priori logic that it was dangerous before it even came out.
Thanks for teaching me about the nudge with some good graphs. I also enjoyed seeing how systems can go bimodal. Here is a thought for you, which in working on the implications.
Which I think epigenetics is key. Mass vaccination as a policy will always fail to achieve better public health because adverse reactions are non-normal processes.
I also think these mRNA jabs are non-ergodic nightmares which we are watching their awful effects continue to unfold. I think the migration of the nano particles into the organs is starting to occur whose effect is pronounced in boosters as described here is one of the non-normal effects that would either be dismissed as coincidence if observed in early testing.
https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Vaccine-immune-interactions-and-booster-shots.pdf
I watch UK Column news to bypass the obscene propaganda broadcast by the BBC et al. So they enlightened me about the Mindspace document and the part of the government that you refer to. Apparently using psychological ploys on an unsuspecting population to cause untold mental, societal, physical and economic damage is something the UK is willing to share worldwide.