For Your Safety

For Your Safety

Never a more debilitating phrase has been spoken. Note that the one's issuing the announcements, ad nausea, always use the word "Please" (smile). Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat.

For you safety please follow instructions. - For We are not intelligent enough to determine the 'safe' and 'unsafe' motions involved in a given task. It implies that any deviation from set instructions would likely result in injury of sort or worst.

For your safety, please do not leave your bag unattended. - I love this one which heightens the level of suspicion within the average observer. All based on overreaction based on indoctrination at the 'security' level that anyone could be a 'threat' therefore grandma's wheelchair, Sally's breast implants (sorry Sally, cat's out of the bag) and little Johnny's breast milk are all considered high risk of being possible 'suspicious' items.

For your safety, please never leave your child unattended. - Never? Really? Makes me laugh straight away but let's dive in. Save the children from all the horrors that this world and its damaged human inhabitants pose to such a sweet darling child. Remember the stories of the 'Moonies' from the 70s? Remember the child abduction stories (always a van)? Remember the milk cartons? I guess it may be about disempowering the child from an early age (did you have your cereal and fear?) for if you project that fear young, it sticks tight and acts as a 'base coat' for the rest. That's right, I almost forgot, that fear was for the moms; well guess where it got projected to.

For your safety, the customer is no longer right.

I could go on and on but if you really want to know what is 'thought' of the average person just read through this "For Your Safety" section of the online manual for a DSLR camera

I especially appreciate:

"Do not entangle, wrap or twist the straps around your neck." "Failure to observe this precaution could result in accidents." - They also may want you to remove your shoe laces.

"Do not use this product in the presence of flammable dust or gas such as propane, gasoline or aerosols." - or you might blow up. Now there is something for an ad campaign; Excitement, Built In. But apparently not a good choice for taking pictures of your car at the refinery BBQ.

And please be sure to check this from a very famous car manufacturer  - Those 'adult' cartoon figures sure make one feel all grown up. Maybe we should have cut down on the Simpsons and Family Guy.

Sometimes I think that we live in a cartoon world where meanings get lost in feelings, the acronyms rule the short attention span and communication is shattered in the paradigm of "me, me, me" which is forever lost in ambiguity. Oh wait, that's real.

Are people actually capable of realizing the retardation of the human psyche which takes place throughout this sort of treatment? That projecting fears upon others is 'valid', if many people feel the same way does not make it valid. Is it that difficult to see what utter nonsense that really is?

Now buckle up because the idiocy is going to get even more bizarre as time goes on within this operation. Once enough people tire of this one, the next is sure to follow, do don't be too reactive in the first phase. Safety is not only a controlling device but also necessary at this point on differing levels.

Take a look at that image and think about what it is that you see. Do you see the carelessness of the people involved and that it is an accident waiting to happen? Do you see that there is a problem because of a lack of regulations? Do you, perhaps deep down, wish these people to be 'punished' for their blatant disregard for basic safety?

The image which I chose for this article demonstrates what for you? For me it shows that they have something I don't; the freedom to do that, to be responsible for their own safety. That is what I WANT!