Reflection on Human behavior, inspired by thuggish elevator companion

While getting onto the elevator today, and riding it, I was struck by how counterintuitive the elevator as we know it is. How completely antithetical to our brainstem responses.

We get in a little box, with complete strangers, and where our flight/fight response is invalidated by the circumstances. We put ourselves into the position of powerlessness in terms of being able to affect our environment, and put our little monkey brains in the position where the choice is fight or die if confronted by a predator.

How abjectly absurd.