China's new game

[Skeetersaurus]

It's the Overton Window. They're just getting our feet wet so to speak, testing the waters. Here's the full-blown idea, but wait! We didn't mean that, it's not as bad as you think...and then little, by little, the "window" moves into more unacceptable control.

In truth, we've been playing catch-up with China's Communists for decades. We now have a number of social-engineering tools in wide-open-exhibition and don't even see them for what they are. Facebook is a great example, it is the ultimate social-engineering tool designed to allow peer-pressure force the users (often under-30) to 'tow-the-peer-party-line' or else risk ostracism by their friends, classmates, relatives and remote peers. The higher your 'likes' implies that the more you tow the party line. This isn't an accident, it is by absolute planning and control. We, as Westerners often ignore the forest for sake of the trees. We are much, much further along the line of 'join or be singled-out' for uniqueness, than we often admit to or realize. The event in China isn't 'a horizon event', it's merely Chinese Facebook applied to their society. When you really see it like it is, then you realize, they are modeling a new Communist tool based on an existing Western technology. We aren't seeing the future in this, we are simply giving them a blueprint on how to build a great 'social engineering tool' that they merely need to mildly remodel to fit their specific application.

This is the real 'fear' that I see in this.