The “Safe” Hoax

Okay, I gotta pipe in on this whole horsecrap about being “safe”.

I’m really pissed off about the White House Spin Machine going on and on about how America is “SAFER” but not yet “SAFE”.

“SAFE”? “SAFE”????

There’s no such thing!

I’ve got a news flash for the great unwashed: THE WORLD IS NOT SAFE! Never has been, and probably never will be!

Take a look around your home… sharp edges, pointed corners. Have any scissors around? Keep any cleaners?

You’re reading this online, so that means if you have a laptop then it’s probably running on Lithium batteries that MAY or MAY NOT catch fire. Don’t think it can’t happen to YOUR laptop? Yeah, Dell and Apple users thought the same thing too.

Watch the news lately? If the damned terrorists don’t kill you tomorrow, then the media will let you know about any number of possible things that will kill you in a few years down the road. Your favorite fast food joint may be responsible for killing you in five years… or maybe ten… or maybe thirty years later… either way they’ve got your number! You may be drinking water from pipes that may be older than your grandmother, and who knows WHAT is corroded in there! Oh, a bottled water drinker, you say? Well how about the dishes you wash? That uses water. You gotta shower, right? That uses water too. You know the sun could kill us all and we would never know it. The sun, gamma bursts, meteor strikes… hey, for all we know we may be on a collision course with a two-dimensional piece of quantum string that we’ll never know about until it hits us and wipes us out of existence!

While we’re on the subject of “SAFE”, maybe the White House would like to explain how we could consider ourselves to be “SAFER” with North Korea threatening the world with their nuclear weapons, and how Iran is trying desperately to GET nuclear weapons? And if we’re so damned “SAFER”, then why is it that every time a GUN goes off in Israel, some bible-thumping fundamentalist screams that it’s the start of Armageddon?

Listen, I know about being “safe”. Part of the reason why my personal life SUCKS is because it’s “safe”.

You want to know what “safe” is? Safe is staying at home on a Saturday night, afraid to go out. Afraid to go to a movie by yourself. Afraid to go to a restaurant because you’re by yourself. Afraid to ask someone out because you might get rejected… again. Afraid to drive because you might get your car totaled by another driver… again. So you stay at home with your cat and your aquarium fish and flip channels on the TV looking for something that you’ve never seen before that you wouldn’t mind your neighbors hearing through the open window. Safe is spending more time with emails and chat rooms than with actual live human being and then trying to find ways to fill the lack of human contact.

THAT is what “safe” is all about. And guess what? IT SUCKS!

Look, the person who promises to make the world “safe” or even “safer” is promising something that they can NEVER EVER DELIVER, and what they do ask for in return is something that they usually have no right to have in the first place. So go ahead and take the chance now before your life ends up something like mine.