Smoke Alarms

The entire idea behind Smoke Alarms befuddles me so.

Yeah, you like that english don’tcha? But it does. It’s because the entire basis of the idea is, in theory, good, but just is executed in the wrong way. Because what a smoke alarm is designed to do is set off an alarm if it-as it’s name BLATANTLY states-detects smoke. But why would you need an alarm? I mean, is the smoke and heat itself not enough of a warning that you’re about to be engulfed in FLAMES? Don’t make much sense to me. Neither does that grammar.

Same thing with fire alarms. There are fire alarms at schools. Because a giant eruption of flaming death from a building that goes into the air a mile wide ISN’T OBVIOUS ENOUGH. We have to be TOLD there’s a fire. Until we’re told something, it’s not really true. That’s the way this country works. Until CNN has a headline for it, like, “War in Iraq”, it’s not really happening. I’ve noticed most warning labels, and gadgets such as fire alarms & smoke detectors are made by people with the assumption in mind that the people surrounded by these things-if not told-WILL BE HURT. Apparently, they think everybody is stupid and have to be TOLD not to smoke when they can tell it’s killing their grandmother, but they have to be told by some big corporation before they think twice about it.

Actually, marketing sounds like a place that you get to invent things for stupid people, because you believe everybody is stupider than you. Which I have high respect for. I should be in marketing.

God I really rambled off on this one.

m@rk