Take the example of the timid driver who is trying to change lanes amidst high velocity traffic flows. Each car that passes up the timid car, and denies that car its movement into the next lane, is individually motivated by self-interest, and thanks to cultivated apathy, is unmoved and loathe to stop and let the slower car pass in front of it.
This accumulated self-interest, however, results in a cruelty in which the timid driver is trapped and despairing within the flows.
Still, the cruelty exists in the greater velocity and volume of the traffic flows which daily shape themselves, as manifested in the relations between all of the drivers participating.
