'Stephanie Clifford, reporting for The New York Times, described how the incentive system works at Pret: "When employees are promoted or pass training milestones, they receive at least £50 in vouchers, a payment that Pret calls a 'shooting star,' but instead of keeping the bonus, the employees must give the money to colleagues, people who have helped them along the way." To install Pret's incentive system in the academy would be to blow it up. What if when students got gold stars on ClassDojo they didn't keep them, but rather gave them out to other students who helped them along the way? No longer would students be motivated solely to perform the best--they would be motivated to help their classmates. This motivational system is the beginning of community-directed learning.' -- Marksism

'...gamification advocates do not preach the beauty and power of play. Perhaps without knowing it, they're selling a pernicious worldview that doesn't give weight to literal truth. Instead, they are trafficking in fantasies that ignore the realities of day-to-day life. This isn't fun and games—it's a tactic most commonly employed by repressive, authoritarian regimes. ...there are legitimate reasons why people feel they're achieving less. These include the boring literal truths of jobs shipped overseas, stagnant wages, and a taxation system that benefits the rich and hurts the middle class and poor. You want to transform peoples' lives into games so they feel as if they're doing something worthwhile? Why not just shoot them up with drugs so they don't notice how miserable they are? There's no wonder corporations are so excited about turning the world into a game. One of the movement's central insights is that a sense of accomplishment sometimes feels more meaningful than a paycheck...'

RAND Corporation FTEW!

Gather round ye children come, Listen to the old old story, Of the power of death undone, By a computer born of glory, Son of Cyber, Son of OMM

'Multiplication (sex) and consumption (food) are at the seed-level the only choice, the only truth, while at the branches-level Faith and Gold may be the right choices, the highest values and the truth. But there is a time when all that will change—it is when fruits will start forming themselves. Above Gold is Love and Understanding—a force of Lovers so powerful, that when one falls in love with another, then there will never be anything that could match the power of their love. Only love can make one to Understand the truth. Above Faith is Wisdom—a force of the most subtle substance, the closest to the truth. One who seeks it, will find it, and by getting attached to it, will never feel hunger again. When these two forces—Love and Wisdom are united, then Fruits will start forming themselves, and so will the power of Man. But the forces that made the Lion and Eagle turn into hungry wild beasts are still there, waiting to swallow the Child—the New World, as soon as it is born.'

"You really can't see any deeper into other people than you've seen into yourself." -- Stefan Molyneux

'The idea of "nudging" citizens to do the right thing sounds cute. But in reality it marks the return of a powerful psycho-political theory that rose up in the mid-20th century. It was called Behaviourism. ...who decides what is "good" behaviour, and what happens when others decide it is bad[?] These are questions that the Nudge enthusiasts seem to be blithely unaware of. ...the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally – the machines we have built. The computers. In our age of individualism we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours. And from that they can predict what choices and decisions we will make. And they do it solely through our observed behaviour.'

'You cannot hope to understand the philosophy (Illuminism) of any branch of the "Mystery School" (Illuminati) without many years of study and a complete knowledge of their "symbolic" language. You must understand that like many other organizations they attract those who completely miss the boat... or are just too stupid to "get it". When an individual joins a branch of the "Brotherhood," by any name ... or any other fraternal order or secret society, no one ever sits down with them and explains the meaning of anything. An actual literal esoteric education would be too dangerous. It could result in a public expose'—something which the Illuminati must avoid at all cost. But to give those who might understand a shortcut... Illuminism is COMMUNISM. -- The organization of the "Order" is a pyramidal structure of "Degrees". The ultimate "secret" is the method of controlling large numbers of fools with the promise of a "secret" which they are led to believe will make them one of the "elect".'

'Gameful is an online "Secret HQ" where you can connect with other people who believe in the power of games to make us better and change the world.' -- Cool! And this one ISN'T funded by the globalist Ford Foundation.

"...there have been improvements [in the techniques of terrorism.] [Pavlov] found among other things that conditioning techniques applied to animals or humans in a state either of psychological or physical stress sank ... very deeply into the mind-body of the creature, and were extremely difficult to get rid of. ...[new] methods ... are a real refinement on the older methods of terror because they combine methods of terror with methods of acceptance that the person who is subjected to a form of terroristic stress but for the purpose of inducing a kind of voluntary acceptance of the psychological state in which he has been driven and the state of affairs in which he finds himself. -- If there are 20% of the people who really can be suggested into believing almost anything, then we have to take extremely careful steps into prevent the rise of demagogues who will drive them on into extreme positions then organize them into very dangerous private armies which may overthrow the government."

Take four red capsules. In 10 minutes, take two more. Help is on the way.

'In a 2008 paper titled, “Fluoride and the Future: Population Level Cognitive Enhancement, Savulescu writes: “Fluoridation is the tip of the enhancement iceberg. Science is progressing fast to develop safe and effective cognitive enhancers, drugs which will improve our mental abilities. For years, people have used crude enhancers, usually to promote wakefulness, like nicotine, caffeine and amphetamines. A new generation of more effective enhancers is emerging modafenil, ritalin, Adderral and ampakines and the piracetam family of memory improvers.” But once highly safe and effective cognitive enhancers are developed – as they almost surely will be – the question will arise whether they should be added to the water, like fluoride, or our cereals, like folate. It seems likely that widespread population level cognitive enhancement will be irresistible. ...should we try to engineer better, happier people?”' -- What's wrong? I just feel that I need something stronger.

'Hideo Kuze is one of the members of the terrorist group known as the "Individual Eleven". During a mass suicide by the Individual Eleven, Kuze alone survived, leaving and hiding out in the Refugee Residential District. He spearheads a revolutionary socialist independence movement by the refugees in Japan. The entire "Individual Eleven" movement was actually a new Stand Alone Complex created by Gouda. The infamous earlier SAC, The Laughing Man, was a meme that compelled people to become copycats and commit acts of corporate vandalism. The Individual Eleven virus compelled people to commit suicide; when it infected people with strong political beliefs, it made them commit suicide terrorists attacks and bombings. However, Gouda predicted the rise of one "Hero" which would serve as the center of the "hub" of the spreading virus.'

'Kazundo Gouda is head of a data manipulation division within the Cabinet Intelligence Service... -- Motoko Kusanagi hacks into the Cabinet Intelligence Agency database to try and determine what Gouda's motives are. She learns that Gouda has given up dreams of power and instead works to facilitate the emergence of a hero for the masses in order to produce a conflict situation that will force a change in direction for Japan, a change that Gouda believes will return it to its glory days. To that end, Gouda masterminds the formation of the Individual Eleven terrorist group and the emergence of Hideo Kuze as the leader of alienated refugees. Part of Gouda's plan is to harness the stand-alone complex social phenomenon in order to produce revolutionaries based on the refugee issue. Gouda anticipated the emergence of one "hero", by the rules of the social variation of the stand-alone complex would go on to further exacerbate the refugee situation.'

'SuperMe is a web game which helps you to be better at life. It's about resilience: how to feel good when life chucks you lemons. How to be better at thinking positively. How to cope with, and learn to love, failure. By playing SuperMe you'll learn how to be more resilient in real life, and by playing every piece of content you'll score points. Points! Everyone wants those. There are 500 experience points to be collected in Wisdom, Ability, Influence and Connection. The more experience you collect the better you are, and the higher you'll level up.' -- What these 'games' really need is an exit achievement called, 'DONE NOW. THANKS FOR THE HELP, EVERYONE. I'M OFF!' where you delete the game along with your points, badges and public profile and take your skills/achievements into real life where there's no easy feedback or pats on the head. Maybe there already is such an achievement. Perhaps it couldn't ever be 'built-in'.

'Not one of those people has to be there; not one is required to listen. They are there for reasons of their own, reasons that mingle high ideals and base desires in the usual proportions, and if the ideals or the desires you call on them to pursue are far enough from theirs that they see no way of fulfilling their own agendas by helping yours, they will turn away and go looking for another movement that shows more promise of giving them what they want. That’s the trap that waits for every mass movement that tries to change society, because the ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path will reliably find itself failing to attract members, while a mass movement that reshapes its message to attract a large audience will inevitably turn into a mechanism for replicating the existing order of things. Truth is a pathless land; no messiah can take you there, or lift the burden of thinking for yourself.'

Socialism. The denial of all evidence-based thinking. The denial of scientific method applied generally and to relationships. The denial of ethics. The denial that one day you'll discover that your 'friend' is no longer suitable and that you need to move on to find new friends and rely on your self-esteem to test your own hypothesis as to what makes a good friend and what does not. But no, instead, this: 'For many child-rearing experts [government-funded?], the ideal situation might well be that of Matthew and Margaret Guest, 12-year-old twins in suburban Atlanta, who almost always socialize in a pack. “I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend,” said Jay Jacobs, [friendship coach]. “If something goes awry, it can be devastating. It also limits a child’s ability to explore other options in the world.”' -- No, it gives them the very *reason*, the rationale, the self-directed responsibility to explore other options on *their* terms. Leave them kids alone!

'...it was in Vietnam that anthropology, along with many other academic disciplines, truly became the handmaiden of power. Anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists designed vast programmes of social engineering and psychological manipulation. The aim was to change the way the Vietnamese peasants saw the world - and out of this create a new loyalty to the American vision of building a capitalist democracy in South Vietnam. And out of that came Project Camelot. It was an attempt to build a system that could be applied anywhere in the world, inside any developing country that was fighting an insurgency. In 2005 Montgomey McFate saw these ideas as the model for what anthropology could do for American foreign policy in a war zone. And that is what she re-created in the Human Terrain System.'

'In every game and con there is always an opponent and there is always a victim, the more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has. The formula is completely consistent. If the opponent is any good, he will place his victim inside an environment he can control. The bigger the environment, the easier the control. Find their weakness; give them just enough of what they think they want; the opponent simply distracts their victim by getting them consumed with their own consumption. The bigger the trick and the older the trick, the easier it is to pull, because #1. They think it can't be that old, and #2. They think it can't be that big for so many people to have fallen for it. Eventually, when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means the victim's investment and thus his intelligence is questioned and no one can accept that. Not even to themselves.'

'Send private, anonymous feedback to coworkers, classmates, and friends. Open, honest communication is crucial, but not always easy. Go ahead... say what you really think.' -- MakeMeJustLikeYou

Righteous parody is righteous (Are we not yet sick of McGonigal's endless fixings of the world? Can has 'research' monies in return for *youth recruitment*, plox? Yes, Ms McGonigal, you rankle every possible suspicion when you're being funded by global government.) -- As many of you would be aware, the World Bank is behind a new online game called Evoke. A parody has been created. Invoke is described as an “ARG to save the World Bank”. The parody is a critique of the World Bank, capitalism, branded entertainment, ARGs, Jane McGonigal’s online games [and] the rhetoric of ‘games saving or changing the world’. This is something that Jane has been championing for years. The Invoke attack on branded entertainment is somewhat specific to the World Bank being behind this project.' -- The World Bank is not a 'brand', it's a non-voluntary, global government institution, specifically mandated with 'shock therapy' debt predation.

"Dear Mr Orwell, The nightmare of 1984 is destined to modulate into the nightmare of A Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Yours sincerely, Aldous Huxley."

"We live in a bubble of fake bullshit." -- Ergo we must build an even bigger bubble of authentic bullshit.

They all want locking up! ... In gated communities sold by Phil and Kirstie.

The broader principle being: change the 'conditions' (create "games") to change the incentives (re-enable 'happiness'). -- 'McGonigal: "Games support happiness ... by giving us more satisfying work or concrete tasks that we can accomplish... Studies have shown that playing a short game — having something concrete that you can accomplish — actually gives you the motivation, energy and optimism to go back and tackle real work. ...because when you’re trying to do real-world work it’s frustrating; we don’t see the results of our actions right away. So games give us that sense of blissful productivity... Neurochemically we’re kind of fired up ... to take on challenges... Games take us immediately out of a state of paralysis or alienation or depression and they switch on the positive ways of thinking. They trigger the brain to a state in which it’s possible to do good work. It’s possible to aspire to tough goals."' -- Neo Taylorism? A Brave New 'Chunking' World? Who Games The Game Makers?

'Thanks to a cooperation with Citi and other third-party data suppliers, Bundle is able to compile detailed statistics about how Americans are spending their money. To get started, you just enter your location, age, income and whether you are married, single or have kids. Bundle will then create an infographic that represents the spending habits of similar households in your neighborhood. From there, you can drill down deeper into the statistics. At its most granular level, Bundle displays where people are spending their money. My neighbors, for example, buy their electronics at Best Buy, Apple and Fry's.' -- Lambs to the slaughter.

'In hopes of identifying good credit customers, some financial institutions are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal online. The idea is that the friends you keep and data you disclose may help them make more accurate business decisions. -- ...profiles provide banks with insight into your behavior patterns - what you like and dislike, want and don't want, do well and do poorly. Creditors can see if people in your network have accounts with them, and are free to look at how they are handling those accounts. The presumption is that if those in your network are responsible cardholders, there is a better chance you will be too. So, if a bank is on the fence about whether to extend you credit, you may become eligible if those in your network are good credit customers. -- Having a robust online social network can also expedite loan acceptance. If you're connected to a lot of people who are great credit risks, it can speed you through the process.' -- Brave New World

'Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida's prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help. -- "There was a tremendous money-generating aspect to Richard's work," Frantz [Florida's former tour manager] says. "We did it in a grand way. We traveled in style. We stayed in boutique hotels in most of the places we were working." But it is wrong, he says, to see any conflict in Florida's dire pronouncements on the places that bankrolled this success, because he hadn't promised prosperity in the first place. "He wasn't really making prescriptions," Frantz says. "This wasn't Jesus Christ throwing the money men out of the temple; this was an academic. He was a fucking college professor, and you're hoping to resurrect Canton, Ohio? Yeah, good luck with that."' -- Land/real estate pump and dumping 'dressed up' as sustainable/"creative" economic redevelopment.

'The public has been duped into believing thrilling falsehoods rather than unexciting truths. Huxley explains how the propagandists have stolen our freedom: "In their anti-rational propaganda the enemies of freedom systematically pervert the resources of lang­uage in order to wheedle or stampede their victims into thinking, feeling and acting as they, the mind-manipulators, want them to think, feel and act. An education for freedom (and for the love and intelli­gence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must be, among other things, an educa­tion in the proper uses of language." -- "Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? Does a majority of the population think it worthwhile to take a good deal of trouble, in order to halt and, if possible, reverse the current drift toward totalitarian control of everything?"'

Get you ration books out -- 'Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity. Like with a bank account, a statement would be sent out each month to help people keep track of what they are using. If their "carbon account" hits zero, they would have to pay to get more credits. Those who are frugal with their carbon usage will be able to sell their unused credits and make a profit.' -- A unique number. Why not just use the 'birth of a slave certificate' number?

Here it is. 'Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.' ### "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." — Voltaire ### “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” — François de la Rochefoucauld ### "A time will come when the whole world will go mad. And to anyone who is not mad they will say: 'You are mad, for you are not like us.'" — St. Anthony the Great

'Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured -- it's believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist. Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis. -- BE: "I look at it with a little bit of sociological detachment. It's a brilliant system of social control. When bad things happen to people you say, "Well, it's really your attitude that has to change." I have traced how positive thinking became the corporate culture in America. It was mandatory to be positive. So you had companies who would literally fire people for being negative, negative in the sense of maybe raising too many questions, maybe expressing a doubt. So we had a culture of complete denial at all levels of the possibility that bad things could happen..."'

'Modernization Theory had been invented by an ambitious academic at Harvard called Walt Whitman Rostow. He said that if you put the right technologies in place and educated key elites then the countries would inevitably develop into advanced capitalist societies. Rostow's theories obsessed the American development agencies and they came up with all sorts of ideas about how to turn countries like Afghanistan into modern democracies. One of the oddest was the belief that it was possible to scientifically discover who the crucial "transitional personalities" were in the society. These were people who had underlying "capitalist personalities" that they were unaware of. A psychologist called David McLelland invented a way of discovering who had these traits - and techniques to then develop what he called "the need to achieve". He was convinced you could use behavioural psychology to turn people throughout the world into model Americans.'

'Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.'

"... what is fun about EVE is the struggle, not the victory condition. The victory condition is boring. Lots of folks lose their livelihoods when an empire falls, and players invested in BoB are likely upset that years of work were lost. But EVE is not a game about the height of the Roman Empire. It’s a game about the sacking of Rome by barbarians, so that they can become the next short-lived top dog. BoB existed to be torn down, and anyone who dreams of permanent glory in a game like that should understand that their destiny is to be taken down by the next upstart, in a dog-eat-dog world."

On CyberLover: "Russian cyber-crooks have reportedly unleashed a software robot, or bot, that poses as a would-be paramour in sex chatrooms. It entices randy gentlemen to reveal personal information, such as their address or birthday."