THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD

(12/18/2006)

Road Rage Even In The Aisles: Before Mel's "Road Warrior"

By Carrie K. Hutchens

Stories of road rage aren't uncommon in this 21st century we have rushed into. Everyone is in a hurry. Manners are often lost. Minds are focused elsewhere, or perhaps (all too frequently) on "self" and the perspective of how one (self) should or should not be treated! Seems as though as we move further away from the simple life -- we likewise move further away from the special aspects of humanity and towards the futuristic road warrior days when the world -- as we know it -- will have been destroyed by mankind and left to be a desperate fight for mere survival.

Road rage doesn't just live on the roadways. It exists in the aisles of stores. One event ready to set someone off is when people block up an entire aisle as they stop to visit. Not that visiting should be, or is, a problem. Shopping as an enjoyable social event can be good for the spirit and brighten up many a day for even the passer-by. It's the rudeness, when it exists, that takes away all the good that could have been.

There are people who block up the aisle and have those dirty looks to share to any who would dare like to pass by even with a polite "excuse me" presented. How dare that person(s) interrupt their visit and invade their space?

Maybe worse... maybe... are the people who take even longer just to "pay back" for what is felt to be an intrusion upon where they wanted to be and doing what they wanted to do at any given time.

Even "worser" is most likely to be trapped within the middle of an aisle and nobody at either end seemingly willing to allow for an exit out.

But appearances can be deceiving.

A young mother blocking the aisle as she tries to deal with children not wishing to cooperate, can have a look of desperation often seen as rudeness by the rude. How dare she not have it all in control and move her little world out of the way of everyone else?

Interesting, is when a rude adult causes a child to step back into a display that then falls as a result, only for all eyes to focus with accusation of fault on the child and mother, rather than the actual person responsible. Couldn't be the rude person's fault. Of course not. After all, that child shouldn't have been in the store to be in the person's way in the first place.

Likewise, no one should ever be in line in front of the rude person that likes to do the cart hitting. (I hate the back of the ankle attacks worst of all. That hurts big time!) What purpose do they think it is to nudge (forcefully) someone that has nowhere to go to get out of the way? Makes one wonder if they drive their vehicles the same way they drive their carts?

I have had many of the nudge drivers behind me and have hated every moment of it. Like, do they think if they get within an inch or less of my bumper that I am going to mysteriously go faster, when faster would put me into the back of, or under, the vehicle directly in front of me? Duh, I don't think so! At least not by choice!

I always wonder...

Did these people miss the class that teaches that two solid objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time?

How about those drivers that jump in front of others, especially semi's, and have no clue, or care, of the wreck they did or almost caused? How dare those other drivers be in their way? Who cares who was harmed or killed as a result of their impatience and thought of self? Maybe the person's family?

How did we get to be so rude and crude, thinking self is ultimate and all others deserve only what we wish to give when we wish to give it? Did it start when one merely tried to teach us to believe we are all God's children and therefore all worthy of love and good things? Is that where it started only to be taken out of context, and then leading to a stage of pure and cold self-centeredness, that is cruel and does nothing but destroy? Is that how we got to, "I am and therefore you are not worthy?"

Some people laugh and say that "Road Warrior" and "Logan's Run" are merely fiction meant for entertainment purposes. Perhaps these people (as well as the rest of us) should take a good look at the world around us all before so quickly dismissing how fast we are moving towards this fiction becoming our reality.

We have insurance companies that decide what they will and won't pay for and therefore a doctor's opinion and plan of treatment means nothing, if they don't agree. (Don't we all wish we could so simply get by with not paying our bills if we decide we don't agree to?)

We have Texas with the "Futile Care Law", which appears to be self-serving and with no true supervision over who gets on these committees that make the decision between life and death even when it is in spite of patient and family wishes. (What better job could there be for a serial killer type?)

We have Judge George Greer in Florida who gets to not only decide that Terri Schiavo wouldn't want a feeding tube -- he orders that she die by starvation and dehydration. He orders that she will not be fed or given liquids by mouth even if by some means she shows that was her wish. His order was equal to an execution. His order was equal to a pillow being placed over the face of one that continued to breathe after a ventilator was removed. However, choking or suffocating to death would have been faster and less horrendous than dying such a slow and hideous death by torture as was the death of Terri Schiavo.

The round the bend and nudging us to move faster than we really ought to, should give us a signal that we better be taking a look at what is happening around us.

Yes, "I am and therefore all others are in my way -- move out of it!"... is not an attitude that will bring us to any good end. It will, however, bring us to "Logan's Run" and the killing off of people we feel are not productive enough to be of value. It will bring us to "Road Warrior" where our world is destroyed and we fight every moment for mere survival and with little hope for the future being anything better.

Maybe we should begin to think again...

"I am and therefore you are, too!"

Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.