What if We Had Human Bar Codes?

What if humans had a personal bar code that could be read by other humans? You could turn them off when in public but it was protocol to turn them on when you were one on one.

It would be scanned immediately when you met someone new. They could tell what kind of person you were. By indicating your habits, your health, your physical conditioning, your intelligence, your occupation, your interests, your political party, your financial condition as A,B, or C, your criminal record, your birth sign, your birth place and of course your blood type.

You wouldn’t need E Harmony. You could tell in a second whether you wanted to spend more time with this person. It wouldn’t be all bad unless you were all bad. But, then you would have to find someone just like you.

Once you had all the information that would normally take you months of courting to discover about someone you could get into the more important stuff. What do you believe, what are you passionate about, what are your goals, what are you doing to improve yourself?

It would eliminate the need for pretense. It would eliminate the need to lie. Everyone could be humble about them selves and spend their time exploring souls instead of creating illusions.

You would be stripped naked of sorts but it might be refreshing. Maybe from the start people would start working on the things that were important for their bar code like character.

What would be even more interesting is if it would tell your relationship with the truth. Do you tell the truth all the time, sometimes, rarely, or never? Under what circumstances do you not tell the truth?

What is your commitment level? Do you always see things through that you start or do you always quit, sometimes quit, rarely quit, or never quit?

How passionate are you about serving others in your work or career? Could care less, sort of care, very concerned about service, or passionate about excellent service?

How much do you care about other people? Not at all, somewhat concerned, very concerned, or highest level of caring?

And so on. How would this make interviewing for a job if both parties could read each other? How would this make voting for a politician if you had the truth? How well could you match to a mate? How well could parents and children understand each other?

Yes, it seems like you would be stripped naked, but you would also be liberated and given the opportunity to make deep meaningful connections.