“Seeing is believing,” the old saying goes.

As our elite climate commissars pave the path to a “sustainable” future one of their challenges is coaxing the lumpenproletariat into willingly supporting half-baked policies based on computer simulations built atop ivory tower assumptions. This is necessary to keep up the pretense that we still live in a democracy.

They call it “nudge theory.”

What would a car-free city look like? How about walking to the supermarket in a 15-minute city? Wouldn’t you love to own nothing and be happy? Gee willikers, those bugs are yummy!

Pay no attention to what is actually happening in Cambridge and Boston as car lanes get turned into bike lanes, street parking is squeezed out, and traffic backs up half a mile every time a delivery truck stops to unload. Instead, take a look at this cool AI-generated image of carefree pedestrians ambling down the greenway!

Yes, “AI-generated visuals of car-free US cities help improve support for sustainable policies” is really the title of a peer-reviewed socialist scientism paper in Nature Sustainability. In it, MIT behavioral scientists demonstrate that hypothetical voters can be influenced by the right kind of manipulative imagineering.

“Skeptics are more likely to approve of sustainable infrastructure when shown AI-enhanced images of how green cityscapes might look,” touts the Sloan School article praising the program. Because it uses AI images it’s much more effective than those old happy-farmer Soviet propaganda posters.

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