While our so-called leaders would like us to think that the best way to prevent terrorism is endless war against poorly defined enemies, there are other options. Technological options.

How about brain fingerprinting? Ask people simple yes and no questions and get the truth every time. Put it on airlines but don’t stop there.

Hook it up to your hubby. Does he think you look fat in that dress? Tap into your president. Is he actually a Zionist robot controlled by space aliens? Does he think you look fat in that dress?

You too can enter the horrifying world of total honesty.

Honesty is the only thing more terrifying than liberty. I think most of us would rather die than tell the truth. Let alone hear the truth. Can you even imagine not having a choice about it? I can. Brain fingerprinting should be mandatory.

Hilarity will ensue. Just imagine humanity grappling with itself as it really is as opposed to how it would like to be. A lot of motherfuckers will get murdered. Think about how much damage people can do when they’re acting on the wrong information. Think about how much more they can do if they have the right information. Zoo Keeper’s first rule: An animal is dangerous in direct proportion to its intellegence. If we get the truth, we get smarter. That makes us a lot more dangerous. Having the truth will not make us kind. There’s a reason it’s called “brutally honest”.

Most of our laws would collapse because most of them are just lies we tell ourselves about the sort of people we want to think we are.

All those rules about paying for sex, drugs, jaywalking and theft. Do humans behave like that? Do we even want to? Of course not. We just want other people to behave like that. We ban the vices we don’t have. Bring on the brain fingerprints. Just make sure that our leaders get them first. Then us. The hypocrisy of the crowd can’t be underestimated.

But I think we need a certain amount of dishonesty. Honestly I do. Or maybe I don’t. Without a brain fingerprint, you’ll never know.