Why is it that we live in a world based on fear? There used to be a time when we only locked our doors when we left the house, but now we lock the door when we are inside and not going anywhere. We park our vehicles in the garage with the door closed and lock the doors of that vehicle.
Are we so worried that our houses will get broken into while we are home that we have to be locked inside? There are stories of criminals breaking into peoples houses and either, robbing, killing or raping someone. Where does that happen exactly? In what neighborhood do you live that you would worry about this happening?
I've been at a red light in my car and seen some sketchy looking dude close by, I look over to make sure my door is locked, but I don't think this is the same thing. What I am doing is perceived danger assessment,I don't feel safe and I could be in imminent danger, when you lock the doors of your house that is more of a possible danger, meaning it might happen even if you think it's unlikely.
If you ever have to fly to a destination you will know that the airports are completely entrenched in the fear mongering. You can't have any toothpaste, hand sanitizer, bottles of water, homemade sandwiches, and a whole dictionary of stuff you cannot bring with you on your trip in your carry on bag. They are so worried that someone is going to hijack a plane that they have gone above and beyond the normal means of safety and they scrutinize almost everything.
It doesn't help that the media has multiple events every single day of our lives that depict some horrible scenario happening at that exact moment. Criminal escaped from jail, lock your doors. Amber alert, a child has been kidnapped. Pedophile in your area look out for this man. Drive by shooting, 12 people in hospital. The list goes on and on and it never stops.
There is a flaw in society here, and It needs to be fixed because I don't ever see this getting better, only worse. The problem is that nobody else sees this as a problem or that our society is broken. We instead retaliate after something happens, and it doesn't stop the problem or makes it so it doesn't happen again, it only slows it down. Shooting at a school, "Solution" Give teachers guns and lock the doors during school hours and have security guards. How does this stop the kid from shooting everyone in the first place? It doesn't.
Are we going to have our own personal force fields in the future? And personal recording devices that record on a 24-hour cycle before uploading to a cloud? It doesn't fix the underlying problem which is the cause of all this safety.
What happens when that security is gone? When your safety doesn't work anymore? A massive electromagnetic pulse from a solar flare or bomb could wipe out all of our electrical powered security in an instant. Vehicles stop, lights go out, phones die, cameras turn off.
It will be total anarchy, with the safety turned off your locked door of your house will mean and do nothing if someone wants to get in. Death in the streets, people will turn into base animals where only the strongest survive. Why? The problem has never been addressed and stopped.
I don't know how to achieve that type of society maybe someone else does.
Be safe out there but don't go overboard and overreact to every situation, that's how fear mongering starts.
Scott Goerz
