These video’s are a little dated and the 3 month delay between the events captured and the video’s wandering around in cyberspace until finally grabbing he attention of the news media (the ‘non-news’ media that initially shared he video’s was Carscoop) reinforces my belief that our society is in it’s last throws. While almost all of the insanity that permeates our culture radiates from large cities, those hell holes compose a far greater center of mass (population wise) than the tamer environs of the burbs or distant countryside. That ‘mass’, importantly, drives the focus of the rule-makers and thus most new rule-making is designed to bring to heel (thank Hilary for this great expression) the ungovernable.
Such is our fate now: every new rule/law now either diminishes our freedoms (in a vain attempt to bring the unheelable to heel) or to increase the power/wealth of those making the rules. It very well could be that that ‘great experiment’ of of/for/by the peeps didn’t quite work out as planned.
The good new is that mankind has many more thousands of years of experiment time. Given enough time we may just get it right. The bad news is that until we do the great majority of the population will suffer under the thumb of tyranny. That’s not to say that living under tyranny is in-and-of-itself the cause of suffering, rather it means that tyrannical governments insert themselves into every facet of a populations life. Given the great and wonderful new tools flowing from our embrace of technologies, that insertion can now be nearly complete and overwhelming.
The very wealthy and very privileged are well isolated from the ills of the world and it’s that isolation that encourages their meddling. After all the greatest gift proceeding from acquiring great wealth and power is the exercise of that power and the use of that wealth to demonstrate power.
Yep, I got all of that from what looks to be a few lowland gorilla’s and a Tesla.