--{ The Self-Monitoring Brain Joins the Gravy-Train:
Being Sold Down the River has Never been so Easy,
By Science and Behaviourists and Politicos so Sleazy:
"Gross National Well-Being Replaces GDP,
Writing on the Wall Concerning You and Me,
Self-Monitoring Behaviour for Modification,
Attached to Old Norms Will Cause Consternation,
Medical Insurance Requires Wearing Devices,
Overlords can Tell if You're Constipated or in Crisis,
Fancy that Cake? You Must Ask Permission
From Your Insurance Overseer to Make Decision,
A Micro-Managed World, Prompts and Nudges,
Still Self-Thinking? Computers are Your Judges,
High Profits, Cost Cutting, Public Private Merger,
Tracking Fibers in Your Clothing from Auto-Serger" © Alan Watt }--
Micromanagement of Every Individual - Behaviour Modification - Store Convenience Cards and Data Collection - Air Miles -
Insurance Companies to Run Your Life - Biometrics and Screening, Employee Health Management - Animal Training, Pull a Lever for a Banana -
Jacques Attali, "Millennium" and "A Brief History of the Future" books - Self-Monitoring and Self-Surveillance Technology -
Public Adapt into New Norms, Political Correctness - Taxpayer-Funded Prostitutes for Politicians - Jonathan King--No Regrets -
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Time to Take to the Streets.
(See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.)
*Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - April 23, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
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