There are no standard motives why public bus fights occur. Some blame the confrontations on scare seating and limited foot space but it’s a product of basic probability - confining millions of people in a bus everyday will cite off some hostility.
These fights often involve the same basic three characters: one rider behaving erratically and looking to rock the place, another rider who has set off the erratic behavior and a group of passive commuters staring at the ground.
The crazier of the two fighters controls the intensity level - if he or she decides to turn up the volume by spitting at the other person, it’s going to be a full-on spit fight with a few loogies thrown in for good measure.
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“Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz includes two voices throughout the song. There is the passive human, content to be glad (for now) with his sunshine in a bag. He knows at this moment in time he is useless but, luckily for him, the future will keep moving ahead to give him plenty of opportunities to be useful. The other voice, the timeless beat of music (or art, expression, ideas, creativity, etc.), has no need for the future or the past – time is for the external, and the Beat only exists, it does not depend on anything else. I’ll just refer to him or her as the Beat.
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