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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:35 pm Post Subject: NZ Parliament Endorses Barcode Tattoos?
Apparently the film and television series Dark Angel includes genetically engineered super warriors called X5s who are branded with a tattoo on the neck.
A group of Wellington school girls thought this was cool and incorporated the idea into their new product, designed to remind people when to reapply sunscreen.
It's called Tat2riffic and it's a temporary 'tattoo' applied to the body, in most cases the arm, by wetting a transfer and applying to the desired area. The 'tattoo' turns purple when exposed to ultra-violet light, but is translucent in its normal state. The idea being that when the colour changes, it's time to reapply the sunscreen. The product was launched today at parliament and it's hoped that it's cool barcode design will help it catch on.
TV One covered the story in the midday bulletin and featured the students excitedly wearing the barcode on their forearms. I thought this was an interesting coincidence as I had just found this site today, while searching for something else:
Now I know that certain sectors of the christian right have been warning about bible prophecy and its possible dire predictions about 'human barcoding' for years. And for a long time, they were ridiculed by a great many people. However, go out there today and talk about microchipping the population (pretty much anywhere) and people just nod and say 'it's coming'...
This week it was announced that New Zealand livestock will be microchipped for ease of tracking animals through the supply lines. It is now commonplace for pets to be chipped. And of course people are doing it now overseas - manufacturers of the chips have them implanted publicly and with much fanfare to advocate their use for mainly 'safety' reasons.
Britain is stampeding towards a national ID card in the wake of the London bombings, as is, it seems, Australia. It's not difficult to imagine that once an ID card gains acceptance, the next phase eventually, will the microchip. Acts of terror perpetrated on the population can certainly overcome pesky public resistance to the idea, however habituation is a more powerful and more worrying factor in changing the public perceptions.
Having something like this become familiar in the public arena goes a long way towards allaying fears and misgivings. Even better for it to become a desirable accoutrement popularised by youth culture - much of the work is already done... Wait a generation or two and those original objects of suspicion have become commonplace and widely accepted.
Youth are enthusiastic adopters of the new and especially these days, the technological - at a time of their lives when the young are often at their most powerful, driven by unfettered passion and inspiration. Productions like Dark Angel, I suspect, target youth specifically to promote, popularise and habituate - because it is they who will embrace these personally invasive technologies as long as they considered to be cool. As realised by advertising execs the world over, this market is an immensely powerful one. Marketers now know that trying to market to parents isn't nearly as effective as marketing to their kids - get the kids and eventually, one way or another, you'll get the parents and access to their wallets and perhaps their hearts and minds as well.
A case in point: There are many parents out there who anguish over the wisdom of allowing young children (or even teenagers) to have their own cellphone. But this juggernaut has gone too far for them to feel they can do anything about it. Now it's almost a necessity - for safety and security reasons.
Persuading the public to go along with ID cards and the verichip technology is a marketing exercise for any government who has a desire to introduce them for widespread use. Unfortunately with the help of the media, it can be relatively easy to persuade a population to adopt something that should be regarded with suspicion. However, marketing only works if you allow yourself to be marketed to...
Marketers now know that trying to market to parents isn't nearly as effective as marketing to their kids - get the kids and eventually, one way or another, you'll get the parents and access to their wallets and perhaps their hearts and minds as well.
This reminds me of the Telecom ads using children to market phones and mobile technology. Some of them are very cute and certainly grab one's attention. What an alluring way to get you to buy is all I can say. And as for very young children using cellphones, I find it to be very dismissive of the fact that tests have shown there may be health risks particularly for young children using them. It would appear Telecom have no idea about this...but of course, they wouldn't sell nearly as many phones.
This week it was announced that New Zealand livestock will be microchipped for ease of tracking animals through the supply lines. It is now commonplace for pets to be chipped. And of course people are doing it now overseas - manufacturers of the chips have them implanted publicly and with much fanfare to advocate their use for mainly 'safety' reasons.
So easy to implement the whole idea as well as the tattoo barcode isn't it :?: :(
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:12 pm Post Subject:
hi melody,
i saw that article as well..
30 second advertisements airing during the u.s. superbowl (grid iron) playoff game are the most expensive advertising spots in the world. therefore, each year, "big money" is thrown by global corporations to entice and incite. in 2001, a spot, i believe by a bank card company (visa, mastercard), starring lance armstrong (we all know how chummy ol' lance is with the bush crime family these days), providing a rather emotional appeal that "one day, all of our dna will be encoded on the back of one of these cards" he went on to declare that "i hope, for the sake of my children, that it will be in their lifetime" "genetic histories, such as those proclivities for cancer could be inferred" (or something like this)
i thought this was one of the strangest commercials that year.. as most of them are usually designed to go well with having a few drinks :) this one, though, seemed to lay-out (incite or tell us) the future.
see, the eugenics movement never really died. we can imagine that employers may require employee's dna information as pre-requisite for being hired. insurance companies can deny cover for anyone at any time. those with any proclivity (not even having to get the disease) will be slowly cast aside, left to wallow in the mire (sorry jim morrison) and "unchosen".
another "elite" professor at (i think) princeton university (around this same time) was advocating the euthanasia of fetuses or infants with birth defects. this in its own is downright murder, but can you imagine if "dna histories" never even allow parents to have children?
i once read that elitist groupthink philosophise that our lives should be patterned along "the matrix" movies. reality is a construct. they borrow on kantian synthesis and transcendentalism. yet, like marx and hegel to follow kant, these aesthetic ideals of kant get twisted. i'm a big fan of kant. he asserts reason is the ultimate authority on morality, and freedom is the pre-requisite, yet the elites take the command approach to structure "reality" and through "oppression" therefore (in their minds) create the ultimate morality and freedom. funny, huh?
unfortunately, the future of mankind on this planet, will not be societies and political systems inspired by kant. we will be socially engineered to follow in the matrix.
