What crime scene you ask? The murder scene! The scene where common sense has been brutally eliminated from our society. What mindless maniac could possibly bring themselves to do this to something so wholesome as beautiful commons sense? The only way to discover the perpetrator is to follow the evidence. Let's explore, investigate, and put the clues together until we search out the culprit.
Exhibit A: Mindless Consumerism
It never ceases to amaze me the level of crud we can be convinced of when dangerous sounding words or horrible, and completely unconfirmed, statistics are put into a commercial for another piece of expensive junk that none of us needs. Case in point, and clue number 1 of our murder, I present to you the motion-activated, touch-less, soft soap dispenser.
A seemingly helpful and innocent instrument, supposedly made for home convenience and hygiene. In truth, just another piece of junk that doesn't really help in any way. The selling point for this device is that soap pumps become dirty and covered in nasty, scary germs and bacteria that get on your hands when you touch them. With this device you will supposedly never have to worry about those nasty germs again. Yeah...
I'm calling this one a bunch of nonsense. It's just one jab of the knife right through the lower spine of good ol' common sense. Let me break this down logically...
So, you don't want to touch a soap pump because it might be dirty and full of germs. Fair enough... Remind me again why you're washing your hands? Oh that's right... Because your hands are DIRTY AND COVERED WITH GERMS that can make you sick, and soap is a magical substance that REMOVES DIRT AND KILLS GERMS AND BACTERIA! So basically, it doesn't matter if you touch the soap pump BEFORE you wash your hands (which is when you'd be getting soap), because whatever germs, that may or may not be on the pump, you might get on you hands will subsequently be washed off and killed in the washing process... BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SOAP DOES!
I have an idea. How about we find a way to keep germs on the handle of the faucet from getting on our hands after we're done washing them? Doesn't that seem like a much easier way for cross-contamination to occur, AFTER the soap is done removing germs? Just a thought friends...
So, next time you're tempted to buy a device that claims to be saving your life from something that never really seemed to be killing us in the first place, think to yourself: Is this another crime scene in the case of the death of common sense? In the realm of consumerism-manipulating companies, it just might be...
Stay tuned for further exploration of the crime scene...
