Driving my car

So far, as much as i can see, January has been about individual choices versus collective choices (and maybe always has been). the usa exemplifies the individual freedoms, and other countries exemplify the collective (chavez?). so we roll along this continuum swinging from middle left to middle right (depending on the financial situation, and how much people feel threatened). 

From the office window here i can see cars - which i think are a really interesting way of quantifying the results in hundreds of individual incidents (and those people who have done all sorts of studies on behaviours on motorways etc across different countries must think the same), however a supposedly collective society bahave well on the roads (mostly) but are not at all collectively minded. there is no sense (which i think there is in the uk) of us all getting there quicker. Just a thought. 

Oh - I should prbably mention, we're well by the way..