Social Policing through Social Engineering

How do you gain control over the whole world? It doesn’t matter how big a police force or military you have, it just ain’t going to happen.

Instead it must occur through the spreading of ideas. Of propaganda. One of the biggest ideas is that you must get the people to police themselves. You must engineer society to enforce the rules on each other. It’s the only way it can be done.

As revealed earlier, my wife and I chose not to vaccinate our baby. It is not an easy choice and, in this case, I’m not talking about the health benefits or risks of doing so.

I’m talking about the social pressures of doing so.

Some people will absolutely HATE you for making this choice. They will wish you and your baby dead. I am not exaggerating there. They will tell you you’re risking the health of others.

They will think you are completely stupid. How could you be so ignorant to fall into that anti-vaxxer propaganda. Don’t you know that science is real?

It becomes a risk each time you bring up the matter. In trying to sell our house and move out of California, it was a choice to tell people the real reason why and risk this kind of response, or to give a white lie.

Of course, thankfully, there’s only a few people that react that strongly. Many others believe these things but still stay friendly in telling you you’re wrong.

And occasionally you happen on someone that agrees with you but neither of you had brought up the topic before!

It’s an upside-down and inside-out world. That someone could tell me that the science is settled when they’d never once looked at a study on the topic, simply because that is what the authorities said.

And because theirs is the consensus opinion they feel they can rightfully claim that anything to the contrary is debunked, again without knowing a single fact in the matter. In one case I was literally pointed to a Penn & Teller video about vaccines. It’s a dramatic demonstration…as if that makes it true.

I get it. We are ALL capable of some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to protect our hallowed beliefs. (And yes, I’m aware I am guilty of it too, however much I try to not be.)

I say all that to discuss what we see during this pandemic. While they’re absolutely arresting people for violating quarantine rules and giving $1000 fines for not wearing masks (despite earlier saying don’t wear masks at all!) or sitting in your car at the beach, it is mostly done by social enforcement. https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/04/05/san-diego-sheriff-brags-about-giving-out-1000-fines-to-people-for-sitting-in-their-cars-at-the-beach/

“Quarantine shaming — calling out those not abiding by social distancing rules — is part of a new and startling reality for Americans who must navigate a world of rapidly evolving social norms in the age of COVID-19. As schools close and shelter-in-place orders sweep across the U.S., the divide between those who are stringently practicing self-isolation and those who are still trying to go about some semblance of a normal life has never been more clear.” https://apnews.com/0714c8c609d604579d00ab93cd6df12c

And you and I are being prepared for this social policing for as long as necessary. Social distancing is likely necessary for 18 months…which means we’ll all need to enforce on each other. “It means everyone does everything they can to minimize social contact, and overall, the number of contacts falls by 75%..” https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/

It’s not just about you. It doesn’t matter what you think about your chances with the virus. You must do it in order to protect other people. It is your responsibility for their health.

Because of the gravity of this matter, the authorities will help you to snitch on your neighbors. “Humberside Police has created an online reporting portal where people can send details of those not following social distancing rules.” https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2020-03-26/humberside-police-creates-online-portal-to-report-people-not-social-distancing/

In Huntington, New York “Please report any observed unsafe behavior, such as groups congregating on basketball courts, skate parks and other areas at Town parks directly to Public Safety’s 24-Hour Emergency Hotline” https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/lupinacci-urges-public-report-social-distancing-violations

And make sure that businesses are saying in line. “If your employer is staying open and not enforcing 6 feet of social distancing, you can report them to Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health division,” says [Oregon] Governor Brown. https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Governor-Brown-gives-method-for-reporting-employers-who-fail-to-follow-social-distancing-569103451.html

New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy even said, “Please, God, stay at home.  And even when you are at home, keep your distance between yourself and other family members.” https://www.fox5ny.com/news/gov-murphy-suggests-social-distancing-at-home

This way we can start better thinking about snitching on family members too for not following the rules.

What more can we take away from people? How about hugs and kisses? No joke! That’s what Italy’s deputy health minister, Pierpaolo Sileri, is saying. “A tsunami that struck northern Italy is gradually receding, but hugs and kisses can only return to Italian life after a vaccine is found.” https://summit.news/2020/04/07/italian-health-minister-says-no-hugs-and-kisses-until-theres-a-coronavirus-vaccine/

A question that few are asking is just what are the long-term, subtle and negative effects of social distancing. Charles Eisenstein wrote, “I heard this story last week from a friend. She was in a grocery store and saw a woman sobbing in the aisle. Flouting social distancing rules, she went to the woman and gave her a hug. “Thank you,” the woman said, “that is the first time anyone has hugged me for ten days.”” https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/

But what if that woman hadn’t said thank you? What if she freaks out? The person giving the hugs had to risk that reaction just like I risked a vaccine conversation.

Adults need social interaction. Children even more so. Is a child interacting with his or her parents enough? I don’t think so. What will be the long-term ramifications if they really doesn’t get to play with other kids for the next 6 months at an age where socialization is critical to development?

Some will argue quarantine shaming and social distancing shaming is all okay as long as it’s decent human behavior, just finger waving and words. But some will take this too far. An 86 year old woman was killed after being punched by a woman because she “didn’t stay more than 6 feet away.” https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-shoved-for-not-social-distancing-sources/

That’s an extreme, but it is not nor will it remain an isolated case.

This is not an argument for or against whether social distancing is the best tools to fight a viral pandemic. Instead it is to share the little-thought about side of how social engineering is done and community policing is encouraged.

I’m reminded of reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. In Communist Russia, the people were taught to tell on each other and they did. And just like that, people would be arrested and shipped off to the camps, enemies of the state.

The problem is all social enforcement so easily gets transferred over to the savior of us all, the vaccine. You must get it to protect yourself. You must get it in order to protect others. If not, (if you even get a choice anymore), you’ll be ostracized.

Never mind, that the vaccine is being rushed. Never mind that never-before-done technologies are being used for some versions of this vaccine such as the Inovio vaccine which entered Phase 1 trials yesterday. “Pablo Tebas, MD, infectious disease specialist and professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Principal Investigator of the study. “There has been tremendous interest in this vaccine among people who want to do what they can to help protect the greater public from this pandemic as soon as possible.”” http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/INOVIO-Initiates-Phase-1-Clinical-Trial-Of-Its-COVID-19-Vaccine-and-Plans-First-Dose-Today/default.aspx

Notice the messaging is about the greater good for the public already.

We’ll see if it actually has a placebo-control group. We’ll see if there is manipulation of the data. No matter what, there will not be a long-term study of side effects unless they look at the population as they roll it out.

Personally, I would prefer to take my chances with the coronavirus than with the vaccine.

But the goal is to make it so that I don’t have that choice. And they’ll use every tool including social engineering to accomplish it.

Let me ask. Do you think the venom with which the propaganda machine teaches people to denigrate anti-vaxxers is going to be more or less after this event?

The writing is on the wall. They’ll say, did you see what we all went through? Why would you want that again? Once the vaccine is available this whole event becomes the problems of the anti-vaxxers and those that don’t allow complete surveillance of themselves.

 So what can we do? Have the hard conversations now before it’s too late.