The Collective Rules

Are made up by the collective

As they go along, making rules

To cover not having any rules

Or having rules being ignored

With such exceptions to rules

That rules are made to be broken

Which seems to be a silly rule

Which is not quite as wacky

That not all the rules are

Fair in love or war, even though

Both seem to be direct opposites

Rules with exceptions

Seem to be the rule


“The kids have rules to live up to, but most of the rules were tough. They had some good rules, y’know, I don’t mean to put them down. Parents had some pretty good rules. No running with the scissors. That’s one I never disobeyed. Made sense to me. This big mother’ll go right through me.

“What are you doing?”I’m not running with the scissors…for one thing.” They had a couple more good rules. They had another one: No sticking your head out of the high-speed railroad train window. Say, goddamn, Dad, good rule. Doesn’t want our heads chopped off. Fantastic, Dad.

But then they had some dumb rules: No running in the hall. Where ya gonna run? In the rooms? Gotta keep turning in the rooms, man, s**t! You can’t get up any speed at all, man, s**t! Hallways were made for runners. The hallway sprint – try to take that quick right before you crash into the statue of the Sacred Heart- man blow everybody… blow the whole feast day.

They had another dumb rule: No singing at the table. Why not? One guy with a bad voice fucked it up for everybody else? No singing at the table. How about humming? No, by extension, humming and whistling included. There’s no such rule as no screaming at the top of your lungs at the table. That ought to be good to try that. Show me the rule. You could stand right next to the table and sing your ass off. Just don’t sit down, man.

🎵”I’m standing near the table during dinner and I’m singing and it isn’t even covered by……….. your rules.” 🎵

“Sit down, you.” That was your middle name…you. “Come here, you.”

– George Carlin





The kicker is that now

The rule of law will be replaced

With the rule of Murphy’s law

Anything that can go wrong, will

Competing with Yhprum’s law

Which is a pretty good rule

Anything that can go right, will

Not like that ever gets followed



Some rules seem to have more weight

Since they were allegedly written in stone

Others preserved on papyrus in an

Underground bomb proof shelter

When not on public display holds rules

Which are mostly malleable and

Convenient to placate the proletariot


Whether in stone or on sacred paper…….


“Did you really think we want those laws (rules) observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against…

We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?

But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.

Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged




While still giving the supposed

Adherers of those rules that they do

Not really need to adhere to those rules

With near minimal to zero research

There does not seem to be any rules

Covering any impedance for greed



The unspoken rule as immortalized

In the movie “Wall Street”  “Greed is good”

“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind”. 


– “Gordon Gecko”


Gecko – a small cold blooded reptile feeding off insects. Hmmmm.


The dismissed part of greed

Is that greed also kills

Which is more of a devolutionary grind

Than capturing an evolutionary spirit

I guess it depends on how we want

To proceed with the collective rules




“Humanity” is not very pretty

When it sees itself

In a collective mirror.”

– Angelo Devlin