Ultimate Secure Home

Ultimate Secure Home

This one web page could support a Ph.D. thesis in psychology. On the other hand, how many of us wouldn’t love to have a “secure home,” free of all threat, even free of all complications, like neighbors or power companies or pollution or noise?

I mean, I’m stressed out just knowing the tumblers in my front door can be “key bumped” by any idiot with an Internet account and a rasp. And that’s just about my stuff. There are plenty of “what ifs?” that could wrong in the world (the bottom of that web page attempts to document them all). Some are important to deal with. Some resolve themselves.

So the question they ask is, when the world ends, don’t you want to be one of the survivors? Well, do you punk?

Think it through. You’re the only person smart enough to build a secure home, somewhere in Colorado. And despite the fact that your Real Estate agent has put pictures of your home on the Internets, you’re completely secure. Everyone else is stupid. Everyone else is dead. How do you feel now?

It’s something for evolutionary biologists to chew on. Those of us who are paranoid and selfish enough to build Arks in fair weather (and it is relatively fair, compared to say, 1942, or 1999, or 999 for that matter). If and when there are disasters, global floods, and whatnot, do only those of us who gave up our lives in order to save them get to re-propagate the species? If such a thing happens, is there a species to repropogate?

But on a more practical level, the house is not really secure. Many of the technologies require things that must be stored, which limits the time you can spend. You will eventually go outside. You will eventually realize that everyone else is dead. Try to build a house that’s secure from survivor’s guilt, or simple lonliness.

There is only one truly secure type of home, which is the one which seals you in and the world out forever. And there is only one way to prevent the world from ending, which is to take part in it and fix it. If we pinch off our own little universes, we might as well not exist. No one will know the difference.

The world doesn’t need us. We need it.