The youth of this nation have been indoctrinated with the notion that connectivity is a highly desirable side effect of Government oversight into their very families. They sit stoically in their rooms with eyes glued to their digital link to the world in their hands. Watching games, Videos, Web pages, studying their school lessons, on those 3″ by 7″ hand held phones with the ear buds linked by 2.1 Gigahertz Blue Tooth signals providing them audio reinforced input. These new We the People are vaguely aware of the family but consider them more of an inconvenient intrusion into their world of digitronics. They never ask why? Why! They, in these perilous financial times, can now be graced with this access while the world passes them by. Why their new phones have all the latest gadgets, and connective devices for free, when just a few years ago these same features were pay as you go. Why even the people on public assistance have the same features that high rollers on Wall Street have. They assume it is because it is their Right to have them.
However! Every time there is a terrorist act the whole system that provides these services is shut down cold. The public access is reduced to 911 and limited calling. Is there a message here? Do the New We the people get that message? Does it compute? In the recent Boston Bombing the digital links went down. The only services were 911 and dial phones. The TV and radio only played Bombing information. The game plan says it was to keep the people informed while preventing the terrorist from using social media to communicate and coordinate more attacks. The people began to fume as their access to online services drew blanks. The newer phones, and pads had built in games and software applications to last a short while, but not enough to cure that created demand. Soon every member of the area was effected in some way. They were told that it was necessary for their own protection. The advertised culprits became the focus of millions of angry, service denied, residents. The hatred for someone who could do this in this day and age in America climbed. Was it over the 2 dead and many injured or over the denial of services?
What would this Electronics addiction withdrawal be like if tomorrow the grid went down? What would the panic be like when millions of digital junkies awoke to no Phone service bars, No Cable TV, No Digital phone
over internet, no recharging of Smart phones, and no music from memory sticks? What will those human entities in the household, when they come together at the center of the house with ear buds in place and a drop
jawed expression on their faces, do as they realize this is not going to change?
This could become the crown on the post of anarchy. Millions of undisciplined teens will begin to wander the streets looking for a direction to their problem. Some will resort to anger. Some will begin to cry and sit quietly in a corner till they are accosted by a parent or another teen. What will the answer be? Today is the time to solve this quandary. Today is when we must get them, and us, started looking at the possibility of this happening. Today is when we begin collecting some non-electric musical instruments, non-digital Radios for communications, paper books on technical issues, paper books on medical, scientific, mechanical, construction issues. Put these books in the attic in plastic bags for protection from the weather. (they will make good insulation if the grid goes down in the cold part of the year)
Today is a good time to start picking up hand tools that won’t need electricity to work. Build a good bicycle driver for an automobile Alternator to charge batteries for your inverter to run the fridge, and other small electronics after the gasoline in the car runs out. That 6 to 1 ratio pedel sprocket will charge with much less effort than a ratchet attached to the Alternator drive shaft. Today is a good time to build the house a below ground compost pit. When the electricity goes down it can be emptied and used as a cool room for things that don’t need to be put in the fridge. So build it with walls of cinder block and mortar. There are many things that you will remember as you get started. The important thing is to get those young folks into the plan. Get input from them as to what is important to their world. Let them provide the subjects and ask them for the resolutions. You may be surprised what
they will think is of what importance and amaze you with how to fix it.
Safetalker
