Skateboards and roads

[Martin Cassini]

As mentioned elsewhere, the theory of spontaneous order says that the more complex the 'dance' of human movement, the less useful are attempts to control it. Thus, any attempt to control a skateboard park would be pointless - it looks after itself, with teens of all stripes merging in harmony. Clearly this is applicable to the roads, yet the clueless authorities impose regulation that puts us at odds with each other and our surroundings. On the subject of the financial crash, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, says: "Wherever you have a lot of interactions, you should avoid organisations that are too large ... Mother nature knows best ... Corporations take out the humanity and replace it with something ugly." Similarly, using the roads could and should be sociable and fun.