Patricia: "isn't it easier to just put on a show and make people feel safe again?"
Call me a conspiracy theorist... First, the point of terrorism is to terrorise. Civilians fought through the battle of Britain by trying in any way to lead their lives as normal. The British government dealt with the IRA on the mainland through very non-invasive security measures. Allow yourself to be terrorised and you succumb. Throughout the ~30 years of troubles in Northern Ireland people's freedom in both countries remained fairly intact although thousands died. 52 people lost their lives on 7/7 but the government used that to pass sweeping laws that allow gross infringements of personal freedom. I may be wrong but I believe one of those new laws is that the police can randomly stop you and take your DNA without formal charges. Many other crazy stuff.. anyway... The security theater is, in my mind anyway, designed to remind people of 9/11. To continue the feeling of insecurity and to allow the security forces to infringe on our personal privacy. This is a little off topic but it is worth noting that the experience has been designed and the goals, if I'm not being too paranoid, are being met. They're just not -our- goals. With the argument that all this security has ensured our safety since 9/11 & 7/7 its very hard to see how to break out of the vicious circle of self inflicted bad experience. Not too dissimilar to our love, as consumers, for more/bigger/better resulting in feature-creep driven products, resulting in our dissatisfaction with the experience they offer. It would seem reasonable to conclude that only enlightened users can bring about better design. Be that voting for leaders that advocate for us, not special interests, or buying products that meet our needs and not our desires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24028 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
