She's just like that white lady who died in the Amazon or the Sovereign Citizens getting pulled over by cops in recent threads.
Her personal narrative was all that existed for her.
It was all she saw.
The freeway held no danger for her, and the police carried no authority.
She was a character in a movie. Obviously she lost some sort of race with the people in the other car, so now she had to taunt them, claiming a victory with words and ignoring the loss at the wheel. Isn't that what heroes and villains both do in movies now? Take a break in the action for taunting?
I was once reading an article about how con artists rip off senior citizens, and one of the guys said you have to get them "under the ether." It's a killer concept.
The Con Artist's Playbook
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Ether is a heightened emotional state that makes it hard to think
clearly and make rational decisions. Think about the first time
you fell in love. Were you thinking clearly? Probably not.
To induce ether, the con artist
will ask you questions that
trigger an emotional response. (In this case, car chase.)
For instance, they might ask you
about your relationship with your
granddaughter or whether you
have concerns about running
out of money. Once they find
something you care about that triggers emotions, they will
“throttle up” on that trigger and get you to focus on it until you
are in a heightened emotional state. (In this case, winning.)
Being under the ether is like being in an altered mental state, and could even be classified as some sort of trance. The con artist gets the seniors hoping and believing and wishing for easy money and comfortable retirement. The "golden years" trance.
The lady in the Amazon was in the "my adventure" trance, and the Sovereign Citizens were in the "king of the world" (I mean come on, Sovereign?) trance.
The lady in this video was in a private game of Grand Theft Auto or something similar, just trying to win. She even treated the police officer and the other people like they were computer generated characters, and all she had to do was find the right words to say, and the dumb robots would let her go to the next level.
Her behavior is only surprising if you keep your wits about you as a habit. I see stuff like this all the time, people out in public, acting and reacting, dealing with other people, but actually completely alone, living out some inchoate dream, a million miles from anywhere real.
There must be some cheat code for people like this, to snap them out of their ether, their anger/superiority/lust/fantasy trance, but if there is, I don't know it, and that cop certainly didn't know it. Even after the cuffs were on, she was still like a sleep walker, just trying new phrases to advance to the next level. It was like she was trying to use Jedi mind tricks on the cop, ignoring all his orders and saying over and over "You don't need to do that. Trust me." Like she was going to put HIM under the ether too.
Maybe they knew what they were doing back in the bad old violent abusive days: