Total surveillance environments could control human development from birth

Evidence

Improving upon Psammitichus’s experiment, you might keep up a sixteen or eighteen years separation between the male and female part of your young subjects; and at the end of that period see what the language of love would be, when Father Francis’s Ganders were turned into Father Francis’s Geese. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 270

Categorization

• XREF: This projected ‘foundling-hospital’ that seizes children from parents echoes the Party’s removal and re-shaping of children in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the conditional-love dynamics in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. — connects to: Intelligence develops from environment and experience rather than genetic inheritance; High-ACE parents generate high-ACE environments for their children within a single practice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7084; Adolescence in the hive marks the first generation engineered behaviorally for surveillance capital. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1430
• STORYSTEM: A state-run foundling inspection-house where children are bred apart to experimentally generate language — could seed a dystopian-novella premise centered on engineered social outcomes through total institutional control.

Broader Connections

• Intelligence develops from environment and experience rather than genetic inheritance #expands (0.75)
• High-ACE parents generate high-ACE environments for their children within a single practice #expands (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 7084