20 April

No individual makes traffic. Lots of individuals driving together make traffic. There's no separate 'we' making that traffic. To even make sense of traffic, they need to send somebody into the air to report on it, to look at its patterns. Societies are only visible from the air, or in statistics and data. And they're not a 'we', they're just lots of 'I's', interacting in patterned ways. No one of us makes those patterns. There's a deep mystery there for us to chew on, that these patterns emerge, but none of us are making them.