Welcome to your Orwellian nightmare of the day. This one’s a doozy.
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.
Weird, but in his 876,492 speeches since he’s been on the scene we haven’t heard Obama droning on about a “Behavioral Insights Team”. Must have slipped his mind what with being distracted by all those phony scandals.
But hey, why let the idiots know what you're cooking up for them? Besides, it’s already being implemented.
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.
The document was emailed by Maya Shankar, a White House senior adviser on social and behavioral sciences, to a university professor with the request that it be distributed to people interested in joining the team. The idea is that the team would “experiment” with various techniques, with the goal of tweaking behavior so people do everything from saving more for retirement to saving more in energy costs.
They're not going to run your life or anything, silly, they’re just going to tweak it. Calm down, wingnutz!
The document praises subtle policies to change behavior that have already been implemented in England, which already has a “Behavioral Insights Team.” One British policy concerns how to get late tax filers to pay up.
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