technology…
I was flipping through the channels one day and came across an interesting segment on the Discovery channel. This was in 2000. I was a Junior in High School. The segment had to do with new European technology. The entire hour long show focused on one woman and her daughter. This was a single mother with a 16 year old girl that skipped school constantly and was found with men much older than herself and also forming a bad drug habit. The mother had recently heard of a new microscopic tracking device that was inserted just below the skin. After many instances of the mother being forced to leave work to track down her daughter she consulted her daughters physician and it was decided that every three months when the girl received a birth control shot this tiny device would be inserted into her body.
The woman went on to say what a wonderfull device this was. How she could get online and track her daughters where abouts down to within a hundred feet or so of her location. At the time the technology wasn’t developed enough to have this device permanantly implemented ,after 90 days the body broke it down and it was passed through the system.
A month or so ago I was reading an article at work and learned of this new device called the VChip that is being used in America. In high security places such as NASA and Army/Naval bases. It is a small computer chip no bigger than a grain of rice that is inserted just below the skin in the fore arm of the men who work at these places.
A week ago my friend Christa bought a new puppy. She tells me that “After work I’ve got to take the puppy to get his first shot and OH! this amazing new thing where they put a little device into the dogs hind leg and if he’s ever lost or runs away from home we can find him, isn’t that great?!”.
Today I was reading an article at work. This VChip is sweeping the nation. Puppies? With your approval. Men in high security establishments? With their consent. But this isn’t what the article was talking about. It was about new borns. Instering this “marvelous device” into our new born children so that we don’t have to worry about our children being kidnapped any longer. It was about us. Humans. Americans. Being tagged. And not just tagged but relying on this tiny peice of technology for nearly every necessity and luxery we have today. A cash less society. No more bills. No more credit cards. No more checks. No more freedom?
I’m sorry if this makes me sound insanely hippy. But it’s not a matter of view point any longer. It’s a matter of freedom! First we are not allowed to pray in school, but KKK members are allowed to ralley in Washington DC. We’re removing the phrase “In God we Trust”and “One nation under God” from our currency and replacing it with socially acceptable….voids!
How can this be ok? How can we accept it? Instead of tagging our children lets care about our children! Let’s be aware of the tv they watch and the people they associate themselves with. Let’s pray before we go to bed and talk to our children about their worries and fears, let’s walk our children to the bus stop. How often have I seen a 5 or 6 year old riding their bike to school, alone!
From a religious view point how can we see this as anything but a prelude to the end of days? A one world order. Complete harmony. Eutopia. But we all know this is not possible.
But there won’t be any rages. There’s won’t be any stand offs. What really will we do as citizens when the years go by and it is no longer a choice but a must. I cannot purchase food or medicine for my child with out this chip in my arm. I cannot pay for gas or electricity or running water with out this chip in my arm. There is no other means. So I take it. And I ignore the fact that I am now simply a number. I ignore the fact that inside my christian upbringing is insisting this is wrong. I ignore it all. Because what else is there to do?
Maybe this is maniacle raging. Maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. But I’m sorry. I can’t swallow the idea of having a computer chip placed in my body. Everything I know and beleive in tells me this is wrong. And perhaps even though the expected time of introduction into society is set as early as May of 2008! Perhaps I won’t. Perhaps I won’t see it in my lifetime. But what about my children?What about my grandchildren?
What do you think? What about you? What will you do?
