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[Alex]

Yes, GD said it better than me but that was the point of my first post in this thread.

Originally Posted by me

As things get crowded I think we need to be become more tolerant of the standard deviation in human behavior because we are more likely to run into the extremes, not increase the pressure for everybody to conform, which just increases the tension.

The rest that followed and led us down a horrible, emotionally painful path, was just meandering ponderings on unreasonable impatience and how frequently impatience just makes things even worse, both perceptually (just ask MouseAdventurers just how awkward and slow the crowd seems when hurrying for a quest versus the rest of the time) and realisically (by inspiring obstinance in those you're trying conform to your preferences).

So, Monorails advice to an increasingly crowded society was to be more aware of how you can make the the cogs of social interactions work faster. I can agree with that, and in all the things he mentioned I am confident he would find me a model citizen. But I think the more valuable advice is that when a person doesn't do that, learn how to go with the flow without stressing on it.