Ping Ping Ping….bong bong bong bong bong…..ping ping ping…

Flash… Flash….. FLASH FASTER FLASH FASTER… MORE PING PING PING PING>>….. BONG BONG BONG BONG!!!!!!!

OK!!!?!?!?! I’LL SUBMIT!!!!!!! I’M PUTTING ON MY SEATBEALT!!!! JESUS CHRIST!!!

I loathe that we have no control over this. We literally get into our automobiles and submit ourselves to an visual and audible torture until we capitulate.

Idiot lights…Dash gremlins…. Government regulatory suppression devices… mounted there to make sure you comply.

Yes I’m feeling a little sensitive today. It’s not that I am railing against the machine… I wear my seat belt ( one roll over accident without one was enough for me) It’s just that I don’t like being TOLD I have to. And I guess that brings me to my point. Remember when it was just a warning light? It wasn’t coupled with this torturous droning of a buzzer that NEVER STOPS!!! Here check this shit out:

“Table 1. Descriptions of seat belt reminder sounds. Sound. Description. Slow beep. A tonal signal that plays at a rate of 1 Hz, with an on duration of 0.65 second.”-https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/810848_0.pdf

That little tidbit of info comes from a 120 page paper from the National Highway Safety Administration. Someone… well a group of people if you look at the notes …spent who knows how long figuring out how to annoy the shit out of you with the correct Hz and time duration to get you to do what they want! It’s “Nudging Theory” in it’s most pure form!

I guess what I’m pisses me off is that I see it more and more daily… the guiding of the herd with simple, but effective, annoyances to achieve complicity. What bothers me about it is that it’s generational. When I was growing up you really didnt have alot of lights regulating your safety in your car. Now mind you I’m only 46 years old…but the majority of my cars to date are still pre 2008… One of the first things I do is purchase a set of “mechanical gauges” for my vehicles. I was taught at a young age that a “warning light ” comes on when a problem has already happened…a gauge is in indicator of what’s going on currently. I really want you to think about that and the inherent wisdom it affords. The same wisdom can be applied across many aspects of our lives. We don’t care about anything to we start seeing flashing lights and 1Hz repeating at 0.65 second. We think everything is “OK” until it isn’t….cause the light came on… but if we had a gauge we could see the trouble comings… we could check ourselves before we wreck ourselves.

Think about your relationships. Those ” red flags” are just ” warning lights” with a coat of paint. It’s like buying a shitty Grand Am that has the oil light on, airbag light on, and the tire low pressure light on. What does that equate to human beings… What “warning lights” do we look for on Tinder? What ones do we expect and ignore? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a few gauges that showed what’s really going on under the hood? I mean… I have all the lights on…my radiator cap is leaking…. and my emotional tires need a good rotation… but other than that…I’m cherry.

There are “warning lights” in other areas too…. Politics is a good one. And to many… those ones are subjective. They follow a narrative and what may be a “ping ping ping” on one side of the aisle is situation normal on the other. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a gauge to see how far the needle swings from left to right? Know if there is a developing problem within the cogs of the machine before the warning light comes on? But… somehow I think it would just degrade into being the usual conservative/liberal /Ford/Chevy bullshit it always does. I’m serious when I say I know people that say ” follow the science” and also believe in the Earth is fucking flat. I need no gauge for that person… their light shines bright.

I guess what I’m trying to say is…. Check ya shit, homie. Check ya gauges… dont assume that warning light is gonna give you a heads up… cause it’s made for after the fact… it’s a confirmation of your ignorance… it’s your idiot light.