When I first read about the latest plans in Washington, I truly thought what has been done for years has finally been labelled and made into a bureaucracy, agency, or committee. The powers that be have been influencing the sheople for years, and calling the non-conformist everything from rabble rousers to dissidents to combatants, or just plain crazy!
The "nudge squad" as it is called will politicize peer pressure, basically. More social and political pressure to conform to the plans of the powers that be. I looked up nudge on WordWeb. Two synonyms were "poke at" and "prod." So, if Washington gives itself permission to "poke at" the people, that makes it socially acceptable and politically correct? Washington has been "shaping behavior" for years now, through legislation. Other than building more prisons, hospitals, and offering student loans for higher education, because public school is not enough to get anywhere in life, what has the unlabeled behavioral shaping done for us? Making laws and wars, offering health care, and mandatory education doesn't seem to have made us a more civil society, a healthier people, or a smarter culture! Maybe if we call it nudging, it will hold more power or pressure?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/30/govt-knows-best-white-house-creates-nudge-squad-to-shape-behavior/#ixzz2aYxmQwtP
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