Social change
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| Interest of | • Clarissa Delgado • Amalric de Droevig • Melissa Dykes • Ivan Illich • Jeff Skoll • Zinc Network |
Society changes, sometimes due to unforeseen processes, sometimes as a result of social engineering.
Contents
Official narrative
Those people fortunate enough to live in democratic nation states should aim to bring about social change through party politics. William Lyon MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime minister was mistaken when he said that “Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” [1]
Concerns
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone's blueprint?”
David Graeber[citation needed]
Structural deep events
- Full article: Structural deep events
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Deep events which make pivotal changes in a society are referred to as structural deep events. Two crucial examples in recent US history include the JFK assassination, which marked a great increase in the control of the US deep state over the US government and the events of September 11, 2001 which launched the "war on terror" as a new means to militarise society and roll back civil liberties while rolling out the US police state.
Social engineering
- Full article: Social engineering
- Full article: Social engineering
Social engineering generally refers to longer term, more gradual shift in society, often due to a range of facts including new technologies and ideologies. It is purposive and often but not necessarily malevolent.
Dumbing down
- Full article: Dumbing down
- Full article: Dumbing down
Dumbing down is the purported degeneration in people's mental capabilities, due to a range of factors such as school, pollution and the development of artificial intelligence. Its origins - indeed its very existence - remain a matter of debate.
Advertisements
Advertisements have been used to try to deter particular behaviours. Ads for tobacco products were banned in many countries.[When?] Later, a health warning on the packages was mandated. Later still, this was illustrated with a graphic image, for example, of a victim of lung cancer.
Knife crime
Research into new methods of social control is ongoing. In 2019, the UK Home office introduced messages on boxes of takeout chicken about #knife crime.[2]
Taxes
Alcohol and tobacco products are heavily taxed in most countries.
Social control
- Full article: Social control
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Legal measures
Outright prohibition of long established social practices is invidious and problematic for other reasons.
Subsidies
Various products are subsidised, either to motivate consumption, or alleviate hardship or for more complex reasons. For example, in the UK, mortgages subsidies motivated people to take out large mortgages.
Examples
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| Blowback | When you aid "rebels" in Syria par example but these end up switching sides and joining IS the blowback is when IS decides to shoot up your capital. |
| Dumbing down | The purported phenomenon whereby people are adapting to modern life by being progressively less intellectually capable than their forebears. |
| Militarisation | The mentality, methods and tools of the military are increasingly being applied across society |
| Revolution | |
| Sexualisation | |
| Social control | |
| Social engineering | The calculated influencing of society on a large scale, often over a long term. |
| Structural deep event | A deep event "large enough to affect the whole fabric of society". |
Related Quotations
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| Tony Blair | “Thatcher deliberately and cruelly wrecked the social democratic society in which I grew up, with the aim of destroying any ability for working people to be protected against the whims of the wealthy. But Thatcher never introduced privatisation into the NHS or state schools – that was her acolyte Blair. She maintained free university education in England and Wales. That was destroyed by Blair too.” | Craig Murray Tony Blair | 25 July 2019 |
| Daniel Lafayeedney | “The UK is currently going through very rapid and profound social change and needs itself to pay more heed to the role the Armed Forces can play in helping to solve social problems.” | Daniel Lafayeedney | 28 March 2013 |
| US/Deep state | “When Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex, the values, institutions, and resources that comprised it were still subordinate elements in American society. Today it not only dominates both parties, but it is also financing threats to both of these parties from even further to the right.” | Peter Dale Scott | 2015 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The CIA - long-range planning for a drugged and debilitated society | webpage | 4 July 2015 | Jon Rappoport | A re-examination of an obscure appendix from a CIA document that was exposed by the 1977 Senate hearings into MKULTRA. Is a secret CIA unit directing and expanding drug use in a pre-meditated effort to weaken society? |
| File:Terrorism & Relative Justice.pdf | paper | 2007 | Mark Findlay |
An official example
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| Open Society Foundations |
