The morning drive

Driving to work has become a waking dream. I shift between lanes without thinking, anticipating the quickest path as though I were high above the experience. Then it happens. A rogue car decides to upset my careful balance and shift three lanes with no turn signal! No sooner had my rage swelled to a tsunami of curses that I had an epiphany. They weren't being idiotic, they were simply ignoring the social standard.
My fury melted away and was replaced by curiosity. Not a day goes by where we aren't confronted with someone whose senseless lack of social harmony aggravates us and causes us to go into the darkest regions of our emotions. Where does this rage come from though? We get angrier at slow check out line customers than we do at genocides in foreign lands. I believe that it is not their action but their obliviousness that stirs our hatred and loathing. These people do not adhere to the same rules that we do. They are on a different plane where they think the rules to not apply to them. Then again, maybe the rules do not apply.
Descartes once said “I think there for I am”. What if the application of this truth is not as finite as we believe. Perhaps these inconsiderate fools are simply choosing to think they are outside the same social fabric that the rest of us are threads in? They act outside the boundaries we have become imprisoned in. When we see this callous disregard we feel outrage. Anger develops out of fear however so we must ask ourselves what we fear in the actions of these few rebels.
Their actions make us question our own actions. With our own actions in question we are tossed into the unknown ether of self-analysis. The unknown is notorious for in-sighting fear and panic which leads us quickly to frustration and animosity. We direct this animosity at the catalyst and express our selves with creative titling and hand gestures that have been dubbed “obscene”.
So it isn't simply an annoyance that drives us to anger, it is the fear of the unknown. If people can act outside what the majority consider acceptable then how can our precarious social structure survive? With that we are forced to confront chaos and anarchy. The aptly named idiots and morons of our world are a constant reminder that we are just one small step away from total social regression and we respond with our disdain. They make us constantly questions ourselves and our world. I salute them for their continued effort to broaden our thinking and force us to explore or basic emotions.
Wouldn't hurt if they took some driving classes though...