The next time you call yourself raging on the road, you’d better step up your game and know this:
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight motorcycle to a car fight.
One Florida man just raised the bar for what road rage looks like.
A video captured on the sunny streets of Miami (Pasco County) shows a group of drivers (and motorcyclists) stopped at a light at which a verbal altercation occurred between a 31 year-old driver of a Pontiac G6-Robert Vance-and male motorcyclist Joe Calderazzo and another female motorcyclist.
Vance, a Land O Lakes Florida native’s temperament was anything but smooth like butter but definitely salty.
The video shows “habitual traffic offender” Robert Vance taking his car as a weapon-by driving right into and over top the two motorcyclists he got into the altercation with—and then drove away.
Vance, seen here looking just shy of what almost made the good looking criminals mug shot trend happening here of late, was upgraded in a big way: Charged with two counts of attempted murder while remaining in jail on 115,000 bond.
As for the injured motorcyclists who both share a love of driving, this incident will not break their stride and ride and [both] will carry on pleasure as usual (we’re sure however-with a realization an understanding that at the next light, they’ll stop, pause and reflect: “We can’t bring a motorcycle to a car fight”).
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Given bizarre incidents like this (and as we speak) stories about #activeshooter #shootings (like at #UCLA today and pretty much all things surrounding things like such), what do you attribute to this rash of random violence?
For me, I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: To varying degrees, I feel there are a lot of people us [all] walking around with some disorder that’s not written on the books as yet-given this new way of life and world order just dumped in our laps. As, some of the most personally damaging things that can happen to the human psyche and change a person for the worse are happening (like):
Confusion-we go online 24/7/365 and if the world outside [of being] online was anything remotely like our positive quotes and timelines posts that we post and insist on, for a lot of people (perhaps like this Robert Vance guy); the world would seem a lot more kind, helpful and gentle? And maybe “out here” versus “on here” the world is a stark raving literal reality check. I dunno.
For many people, to see “life” like such online and log off and experience the world is probably very confusing. Because perhaps it seems like all the “right” people with all these “right”[eous] things to say online, are no where to be found offline.
Given what we were just “given” [dumped into our lives] and various lifestyles forced upon us that either were our biggest nightmares come true (or even biggest dreams come true), perhaps these things are causing a lot of angst, antics / attention-seeking, agitation, anger, jealousy, envy, coveting, preoccupation, impatience, and a whole sleuth of negative emotions that we didn’t have to be faced with or we didn’t have to deal with-with (like at one time) life not being right in our hands (and lives) with just the touch of log on.
I say that because, the APA (American Psychological Association)’s (DSM) Diathesis Stress Model contains disorders stemming from environmental factors, heredity, social, socioeconomic and other (virtual) social factors. But given life now (as before each DSM model was revised-and there is no new revision since social/virtual has gone mostly digital), life as we socialize today wasn’t given consideration/examined for entry into the DSM—because we had no warning that the ways we ‘socialize’ today were going to be (like such).
That very thing is why I make sure I ‘stay woke’ about how I do (and don’t do) in this cesspool of digital “life” (and psuedo “life”), so that I can try and stay as level headed, level-minded and realistic out in the real world.
Like for instance, narcissism.
My general thing is: Anybody who has an online social media account with even just 1 upload or 10,000; are narcissists to varying degrees.
The varying degrees separate us such that while many of us were not (clinically) narcissistic (before the ways we ‘socialize’ today), I STRONGLY believe that each thing we do online (depending on what and how much), there is some (unwritten psychological pseudo narcissism we are setting ourselves up for BECOMING (and for others of us-it’s already happened. I see it everyday.
So, what I’m saying is, to not be clinically narcissistic (before the ways we socialize) and then do the things we do in front of the world (and then carrying who or what we think we are based on that out into the real world) is a kind of artificial narcissism (that’s not even on the BOOKS yet): Acute Acquired Narcissism.
And that to me, is dangerous and HELL (literal hell)-just as dangerous as the negative/weakening emotions (like I listed in bold). Many people aren’t able to deal with life (and the various lifestyles) being put in our faces 24/7/365.
It’s something weird going on, and truthfully I was going to give my thoughts about it when a particular person well known (online) among a certain controversial social group committed suicide a few months ago.
When I went and studied that person’s timeline, I could CLEARLY read between his lines-that blurred line area between online and real life weren’t adding up to him. And well, like many of these bizarre public rages and acts of violence on others (and suicides) etc., he just couldn’t handle it–that divide, that intangible place between “being” here and being a human being “being” out there (in the real world).
My ‘stay woke’ remedy comes in the form of an unapologetic “spandex rule”: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Although like you and you and you (reading this online), I too, have some level of narcissism probably. But I make SURE I consciously do NOT play into the kind of narcissism in ways that such a convenient place (like online) can set you up for (that too), all who are feeding it to you (or you feeding the self from it)—doesn’t have to be held accountable for.
See, the thing is, like positive memes or quotes and posts, or being fed things that feed into either who we are or wish to be, none of those people with the spoon or the online pen have to be held accountable for carrying us offline. And therein (I believe) lies the problem.
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