The Trust Spray…

Posted on May 25, 2008
Filed Under Fake Culture, Society |

Ok, so I have been playing a bit more GTA IV than is perhaps good for me. I often knock the inanity of being a media-junky and all that entails - but there are still many good and enlightening things to be found out there. I mentioned in a previous post, the humorous adverts contained in the GTA video game, and they still bring me plenty of smiles. One in particular stood out for me, it was a company advertising a GPS microchip that men could have implanted into the base of their wife’s skull - so that they could keep track of them at all times. The company’s slogan? Quite neat…”Keeping Trust Alive!”

It’s crazy, over-the-top and kinda perverse - yet it fits many a attitude within our society; the whole emerging ‘guilty until proven innocent’ thing. ‘If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to worry about’, and so on.

Anyway - as always reality is one step (or more) ahead of fiction.

A nasal spray which increases our trust for strangers is showing promise as a treatment for social phobia, say scientists from Zurich University.

They found that people who inhaled the “love hormone” oxytocin continued to trust strangers with their money - even after they were betrayed.

Trust Drug

It’s being marketed as a beneficial medical drug. Yet I can’t help having visions of cops with ‘Trust Sprays’ instead of mace, and planes flying over cities dumping tons of this stuff onto an unsuspecting populace, instead of (or in addition to?) whatever gunk is currently sprayed from chemtrails (heck, would anyone even care - we would all probably trust that the ‘right thing’ was being done).

The world is spinning crazy, but at least it’s nice to know that efforts are being made to ensure that trust is being kept alive…