Fix Airport Security

Ever since September 11, 2001 airport security has become a priority for the United States government, they have installed many new devices to detect dangerous items; bombs, knives, guns, shampoo, lighters, and Play-doh. These new devices include bomb sniffers (Barringer Ionscan 400B), drug sensors (Barringer Ionscan 400B), body scanners (Rapiscan Secure 1000), and various types of metal detectors. It’s well known that none of these new devices really work against a determined terrorist. On many occasions the FBI has sent an agent to an airport and tested the security, in every occasion the agent was able to sneak a prohibited item on the plane. Since we all know that all this security only stops idiots, I have another approach to security. In the television show All in the Family, Archie Bunker proposed a bold new take on security; he said that "you could end sky-jacking tomorrow by arming all the passengers. The airline would hand out guns at the beginning of the flight, then collect them all when they land". The idea is actually pretty reasonable; think about it, a terrorist with a gun wouldn’t hijack a plane when all its passengers armed. Also if a passenger is offered a gun and replies “No thanks I’ve got my own” then you know he’s a terrorist and you arrest him, its one way to trick the terrorists. Another way to prevent hijackings is to prohibit clothing on airplanes. If everybody is naked, nobody can hide anything dangerous; I’d doubt a terrorist would stick a knife or gun up his behind. So there you have it two brand new ingenious ideas both being considerably cheaper than current securities, hijacking is just that easy to prevent.

If you’re a minority and are sick and tired of being frisked when going through the airport, then solution is simple. We all know that it’s not a myth that white people don’t get stopped in airports, hell half the time they don’t even have to go through security. The solution is dye; all you have to do is dye your skin as white as possible, and BAM no more frisking or cavity searches; its fool proof.

Lazy Generation

Our culture is constantly striving to become more intertwined with computers. We use computers for everything; our cars, televisions, and even our phones are little super computers. The 21^st century is considered the “Lazy Generation” because everything is done through technology, no one goes to the store to buy non essentials anymore they just go on the internet and have it shipped to their door. Nowadays people play video games and watch television for entertainment, the idea of running outside, for some, is absurd. Another thing that is new to the 21^st century is that nobody keeps their records on paper anymore, except the government, everything is going digital. The issue with this is that we build a reliance on technology. Back in 1999, people feared that all computers would fail because of the change from 20^th century to the 21th century. Even in 1999 our society was so intertwined with computers that the idea of losing them was devastating. So what would happen if in 2012 all our technology crashed? I believe that our society would quickly diminish; our reliance on technology has hindered our natural senses and instincts.  People would end up freezing to death in the winter and overheating in the summer. Feces wouldn’t be disposed of correctly resulting in the return of the black plague, society would essentially devolve and another dark age would arise.

If our society was to fail, would future archeologists, from societies a couple hundred of years down the road, be able to learn about how we lived. I think that with our encryptions on our computers it would be difficult to learn about our society, but not impossible. If given enough time and funding, almost any computer can be hacked and accessed, so as long as all files over our recent history isn’t corrupted then our generation will not seem like another dark age.