I’ve had this theory for a while that it’s an Id/Ego thing. My very basic understanding of those two things is that Ego is what the world sees and Id is all your internal unfiltered behaviour. I reckon that when you get into a car, that car becomes what the world sees and you, as the consciousness safely inside it, instinctively revert to being more Id led. You feel safe and enclosed so you stop filtering your behaviour the way you would walking down the street.
As someone who has driven in different countries though, terrible behaviour is absolutely not limited to the UK. In France I experienced drivers who actually go out of their way to ruin your day. In the Middle East it was an almost complete lack of caring at all and a comically enthusiastic attitude to risk taking. In Greece everyone seemed to be ok with today being the day they die on the road and in Argentina people just pointed their cars in a direction and hoped for the best!
You’ve described my driving experience and that of friends/family to a “T”.
Can’t pay me to drive in France (well, outside of cities, maybe).
Britain… Well there can be some inconsiderate knobs, but in somewhere like London it’s as bad as Boston or New York, maybe worse in it’s own way due to the city being 1000 years old, with lots of growing pains. (Which is why Boston is a good comparison - they have similar organic growth).
Nah, the id/ego/superego thing was made up by Freud. Freud was a late 19th century crackhead who thought that everyone was in love with one of their parents. We do not listen to Freud. We do not trust Freud.
This comic is why I decided to move out of the city. I’ve sacrificed a number of things, but it was worth it to get away from this crap on the daily.
I’ve lived/worked in a few large US cities, and have absolutely no interest in ever doing that again. (Fuck DC, especially. What a dumpster fire - once missed a turn and it added 2 hours to my drive because of how bad the traffic is. I should’ve driven over the median).
Honestly what is it about driving that turns people into such self-entitled cunts?
Modest mouse has a whole song about it.
What’s it called?
I think it’s called invisible
Number of times I was almost run over in a crosswalk by someone blowing a red light:
Getting cursed out by the dickhead running the red is a great experience. #vancouver
You’re safe in your box and it dehumanises all the other road users a bit
I think people find driving stressful because they struggle to operate machinery more than they are comfortable to admit
I’ve had this theory for a while that it’s an Id/Ego thing. My very basic understanding of those two things is that Ego is what the world sees and Id is all your internal unfiltered behaviour. I reckon that when you get into a car, that car becomes what the world sees and you, as the consciousness safely inside it, instinctively revert to being more Id led. You feel safe and enclosed so you stop filtering your behaviour the way you would walking down the street.
As someone who has driven in different countries though, terrible behaviour is absolutely not limited to the UK. In France I experienced drivers who actually go out of their way to ruin your day. In the Middle East it was an almost complete lack of caring at all and a comically enthusiastic attitude to risk taking. In Greece everyone seemed to be ok with today being the day they die on the road and in Argentina people just pointed their cars in a direction and hoped for the best!
You’ve described my driving experience and that of friends/family to a “T”.
Can’t pay me to drive in France (well, outside of cities, maybe).
Britain… Well there can be some inconsiderate knobs, but in somewhere like London it’s as bad as Boston or New York, maybe worse in it’s own way due to the city being 1000 years old, with lots of growing pains. (Which is why Boston is a good comparison - they have similar organic growth).
Nah, the id/ego/superego thing was made up by Freud. Freud was a late 19th century crackhead who thought that everyone was in love with one of their parents. We do not listen to Freud. We do not trust Freud.
It can still be a useful model for understanding how we behave, sometimes.
He may have been a coke fiend with some wonky ideas, but sometimes, some of them can still be useful.
If nothing else, the idea of how ego plays a part here makes sense, and how we probably think of the car as an extension of our body.
Not sure it’s just limited to driving. Lots of self entitled cunts everywhere.
Lol, true!
This comic is why I decided to move out of the city. I’ve sacrificed a number of things, but it was worth it to get away from this crap on the daily.
I’ve lived/worked in a few large US cities, and have absolutely no interest in ever doing that again. (Fuck DC, especially. What a dumpster fire - once missed a turn and it added 2 hours to my drive because of how bad the traffic is. I should’ve driven over the median).