On zipper merges
Jon Stewart: To me, the hallmark of civilization, and I believe this on its core foundational level, is the every-other-car merge at tunnels…
Drew Barrymore: Well, they don’t let you anymore, they have cones that say, like, don’t you dare.
Stewart: No, no, when you get up to that, and it’s like four cars, and it goes down to one. And everybody suddenly, no matter what, Jew, Muslim, gay, straight, black, white, it doesn’t matter, everybody just goes, ‘I’m next,’ ‘No, you’re next,’ ‘Please,’ and it’s like the zipper merge, and it really says, to me, this is why we don’t drink the same water we shit in anymore, because we are a civilized society. That’s my theory.
… Stewart: Who the hell knows.
Barrymore: I love you.
Via infrastructist, How We Drive and others, too, it seems.
