Don't Play In Traffic

Quick brain dump:

• Here's a list of things we do in our bedrooms:

• Sleep
• Fuck
• Eat
• Relax
• Cry
• Retreat
• Change clothes
• Deepthink

• Here's a list of things we do in our cars:

• Sleep
• Fuck
• Eat
• Relax
• Cry
• Retreat
• Change clothes
• Deepthink
• Drive

My point: Our vehicle interiors are emotionally/psychologically connected to our bedrooms via a perception of safety. Our car's interior is one of our safest spaces.

And like any other safe space, we're uniquely tuned to perceived threats to its safety, and by proxy, our own. In some ways, this invisible stress - the moving of our safe space through an unsafe territory (read: traffic) - is one of the deepest roots of anxiety present like static in the background of our everyday experience. "I hate driving."

So here's my non-intuitive summary: please don't stop traffic as a means of political protest, unless you've absolutely got the numbers. People can react unpredictably to perceived threats to their safety, and you NEVER know who's behind the proverbial wheel. It is simply not worth the risk (IMHO) to your life. 

(Note: this in NO way forgives the "vehicle as weapon" scenario. That is a different psychology, but tangentially connected. Separate post.)