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'If you can stay home, you must stay home.' 'Staying apart keeps us together.' This is the deliberate, strategic, psychological messaging crafted by the Behavioural Insights Unit. Active at both a state and federal level in Australia, and in other countries like the United Kingdom, they are also known as 'Nudge Units'. Nudge is a concept by Nobel Laureate economist Richard Thaler that is widely deployed in the corporate marketing world, and embraces 'soft paternalism' which exploits human failures in logic and decision making. People can be 'nudged', apparently, by arranging choice architecture and herding the masses onto a desired path. The debate becomes whether these 'choice architects' in fact controlled or manipulated those people's decisions, or whether those people remained free all along despite strategic 'nudges'. Nudge principals were adopted into government policy making and communication 5-10 years ago. Read about their history at https://roamy.medium.com/the-rise-of-the-nudge-unit-6e40d4a7181 The author, Thaler, now says that 'we are past the point of nudging when it comes to the vaccine' and is promoting mandates because 'you don't have the right to make me sick' and: 'Being unvaccinated in 2021 is similar to smoking in public, though it is more immediately hazardous. The unvaccinated are endangering themselves and those with whom they come into contact. It would be good public policy if those who refuse to be vaccinated are compelled to spend more time alone.' The Professor's evolution in thinking perfectly mirrors that of governments globally. 1. Ask and appeal to people to make a choice. If they don't comply: 2. Nudge and manipulate people toward the desired choice. If they don't comply: 3. Coerce people to make that choice. If they don't comply: 4. Mandate and force people into that decision (is it even a 'decision' anymore?). This is a segment from a full interview available at: https://youtu.be/_-Xy9pHIdqY Dr Brendan Moloney is an expert in the formation and life cycle of cults, and explained the similarities in a wide ranging interview on parallel economies, parallel societies and parallel academic institutions. --------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE Our Private Community: discernable.locals.com The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable & https://odysee.com/@discernable Our Town Hall on Ethics with Acting Senior Sergeant Krystal Mitchell: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learnethics DR BRENDAN MOLONEY https://www.drbrendanmoloney.com https://parallelmovement.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yOMfkntSyA