Accepting Crazy Behavior As Normal

MY NEW THEORY IS; we, the American people, live in a land of control freaks. In other words, we, the American people, tend to be control freaks. Who knows what the numbers are? Harvard, anyone? Five'll get you ten somebody, maybe Harvard, which does this kind of stuff all the time, has done the research, conducted the surveys. Granted, we all have the right to control ourselves, though it is interesting to note how often and how willingly we turn control of ourselves over to others. But in American we go way beyond self control; we take it all the way out as far as we can, controlling as much and as many as we can, it sometimes seems. When is the last time you drove along an American road at the speed limit or just a shade below, without some fine upstanding middle class normal successful intelligent American driving within three feet of your rear bumper? 1978? If that is not a sure indication of, the best indication of control freakishness, then what is? What on earth are we thinking when we do that? And let's fact it, just about all of us Americans follow too closely when operating a motorized vehicle. Its a national epidemic, like upspeak, or vocal fry. The average American is perfectly willing to position his or her rapidly moving large heavy powerful machine within inches of somebody else's machine, for....what....purpose? To influence, to exercise control over, the victim of the tailgate, the person we are potentially frightening to death or killing? Maybe it goes back to that fiercely independent, every man for himself spirit. The urge to conquer, and to control, and to resist any attempt by others to do the same to ourselves. And yet, it is interesting how readily we all seem to accept being followed too closely. As if we've gotten so used to it, we accept it as normal. Admittedly, there is no demonstrable causal connection between being a control freak and following too closely in one's car. But doesn't it somehow just seem as if there is a relationship to driving so aggressively, and tending to be controlling? As if, it all about me, and what I want, right now, at any risk or cost.