An Orwellian Government of Social and Behavioral “Nudges”
George Orwell "Now that Murthy is the Surgeon General, he can actively use his position to promote gun violence as a health issue and enact a sort of backdoor gun control that gets at core of reshaping how America views gun violence, specifically in a way that those like Cass Sunstein could only have dreamed. That dream primarily being the ability of the government to breakdown and erode some of the powerful institutional and cultural tools we have to protect ourselves from the instinct to nudge other people through the instrumentalities of the state. As Sunstein argues, "People are sometimes bad choosers, making their lives worse. In some cases, public officials are in an excellent position to help." by Nicholas Short On September 15, 2015, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order with the intent on implementing “ Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People .” The Executive Order (EO) is based on a“growing body of evidence demonstrating that ...