Agreed. As one data point, the different in my mindset between struggling through London rush hour at 8.30, crammed in on a tube with my body pressed against the throng, versus coming in at 9.30 when the tube is empty, I can get a seat and relax, read a book, and be calm, is absolutely massive.

I like to call this the post-industrial synchronization psychosis. Our societies irrational desire for order that inevitably leads to total chaos.