A Bulletproof Backpack?
This is the latest ramification that comes out of what I call “The Car Seat Generation”. Far removed from the world i grew up in, this item tells me what we're coming to as a society.
The website for this $175 device says “Their safety is in your hands - My Child's Pack is here to help!” What one gets here is a bulletproof – backpack. It says that you can now protect your child against bullet and knife violence.
According to WCVB-TV, Channel 5 in Boston, Joe Curran, co-inventor and founder of My Child's Pack said about the product, "I want to keep my kid safe. I don't care what you do -- if you want to fight the good fight or fix the world's hurts, I can't help you, but my kids are going to be safe because of these backpacks,"
As someone who grew up as an adult child of alcoholics locked away for 21 years by my parents back in the day, I have often pondered what would happen when this car seat generation gets in a position to effect society. When we strap them into booster seats, mandate helmets when they ride their bicycles, or by extension helmets and seatbelts for adults.
When did the memo appear where safety became a mandate of society.? Back in the day we had to put up with drunk-driving, child-abuse, or all manner of travails as children, but society shrugged its collective shoulders and told us to get over it. Such was no big thing.
Today we have nanny-technology out there which appears to have superseded the Constitution of the United States. Under the cover of fighting “terrorism” we are now being forced into George Orwell's 1984 vision with nary a protest. For the moment, if I could survive what I grew up with and etch letters into silicon today, what's wrong with today's children?
Or for that matter what makes this society think it' is so special?