"Road Rage"

"The Real Cause of Road Rage"

By Steven Montes,
June 6, 2006

Road Rage has become one of the many topics that I have seen on several TV News Channels.
Announcing that Road Rage is now new a type of mental disorder. It is important that we understand, as a society, just how this mental condition first evolved to such an aggressive state. (So that the treatment for this type of mental condition can be deterred or diminished greatly. 

I have discovered that Road Rage comes from a social up-bringing in our society that first starts when we enter the public, or private School systems. We learn at a very young age the basic fundamental skills which brings about Road Rage. 

Children five to six years of age, are un-intentionally taught Road Rage in our schools when we first begin our education program. The children are unaware that as they grow up they are about to become carriers for this growing type of bad behavior that has claimed the lives of so many innocent people on our streets, and highways throughout the country. 

This growing phenomenon is very simplex in nature, it begins when we are taught our basic forms of discipline that we first learn when we are taught to stand in long line to go eat, play, fire drills, or while standing in line so a teacher can take attendance.

We were taught as children that if we raced, pushing and shoving to the head of the line that we could have the best pick of seats in a classroom, or the first to be fed when we raced to the front of the line to eat at the school cafeteria. 

For some of us we can also relate to what it was like to be the last, and how most of the good food at the school cafeteria had run out. From my own personal experience, I can state that I was not infected by this type of environmental learning conditioning, and only because I was always the one at the back of the line no matter what. So as a result I grew up to be very passive, and considerate of other people while on the road, or just standing in a long line in a grocery store, bank line, or a movie theater line in my everyday life.

I also developed a very high tolerance of being patient as result of being last. I can also recall being proud of being last one in line, only because there was no pressure to be first as I had witnessed with the other children my age as they fought and pushed to be first. 

I am sure we all can relate to our own experiences when we were once in school. Remember the first time someone took cuts in a long line that you were standing in as a kid, and how you witnessed the behavior of other kids objecting to this type of action.. Do you also remember the out cry, and actions of the other kids that were in protest as this kid was let in to line by friends, or other classmates, do you also recall how the person that cut in front of another kid was punished with rude comments, or maybe you witnessed a fight break out over this incident.


This type of behavior is the beginning of our environmental mental conditioning that leads some of us to our basic, and well developed hatred of someone cutting in front of us. 

All through school we are taught this form of unacceptable behavior that grows into this instinctive type of hatred. As a result, when we are old enough to drive we tend to manifest, and draw from our deep seeded childhood experiences, as we act out in the form of Road Rage. This type of behavior is triggered by one of our basic and primitive human emotions, called revenge. 

At the low end of this mental condition. Some children that have been exposed to small amounts of this environmental conditioning at an early age, later grow up to act out there deep seeded instinctive aggressions verbally, and maybe even with a hand signal that lets everyone around them know that they are aggravated by this type of action from being cut off in traffic. 

At the high end of this growing phenomenon we can expect to see more of an aggressive, and irrational behavior in people that have had more of an exposure to this environmental conditioning. 

In some cases we can expect the pushing, and shoving to be replaced by the instinct pushing, and shoving using our cars in our attempt to satisfy our basic, and primitive emotions we know as revenge. The results can be devastating to innocent bystanders who become involved in an accident that was caused be this instinctive behavior. 

In other cases where street gangs that hold respect above all else, we can also expect more of a criminal behavior as some gangs act out their aggressive behavior with guns on the street when cut off in traffic, or on highways. 

Having the experience of being able to identify the core of this problem associated with Road Rage, I have developed a educational training program for teachers that is an effective solution to this type of environmental conditioning that results in Road Rage, Street Gangs, as well as other mental conditions that are manifested through this type of mental conditioning in our schools. 

For more information on how I can be more effective in your community please feel free to call me at 520-749-1105, or e-mail me at Smontes@scientist.com

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