Cars + Emotion

"Someday, I'll think of all the things I could do" --The Car Song, Cat Empire

Have you ever had a car ride home, after something particularly nasty, that you wished the car never stopped? Wished that you didn’t have to enter that ruled world again? That the world would keep whizzing by; deifying the normal laws of human physics.

The road is a place of simple rules; be courteous to others, don’t step over the line, do what you are meant to do. There is no emotion on the road, and it creates almost a perfect society. No real interaction, just doing what you are meant to be doing. Everyone is equal (although some are more equal then others; in respect to trains, buses, trucks etc.).

When the world is flying by, your mind gets time to slow down. The world becomes a hypnotic blur; and it calms you. You don’t have to think of the world, you don’t have to think at all.

Maybe its teaching us that there is no way to fix society (if indeed, it is broken) unless we eliminate all emotion from the world. People whinge and whine and cry out “the world is a terrible place! Why don’t we fix it?! Why are we so selfish?!”. Obviously, selfishness has nothing to do with the case. The world is the way it is because of emotion. Plain and simple.

Emotion corrupts the most basic equations. How can 2 + 2 equal 4 when the 2 doesn’t feel like being a 2? When it doesn’t want to join with 2; maybe it wants to join with 3? Then 2 + 2 would equal 5, and the world would REALLY be in a state of discontent.

Emotion complicates things; makes everything a problem, a struggle. Ironically, it is the building block of civilisation itself. How could the first spaceship be created without somebody looking at the sky and yearning? How could the first car be created without somebody being sick and tired of walking? How could the first weapon be created without one man looking at another and wanting him dead?

Yeah, I think im done with that spiel…