i know all the rules but the rules do not know me.

eddie vedder-

one can break them. its not really that difficult. most of the time no one is really paying attention to anything other then themselves, so this makes it easier. once you realize it is really only you and the car and the road, to push past the speed limit is easy. to bend an agreement, manipulate a situation, taking the contents of an imaginary contract and doing what you like is the stuff of legends. breaking rules, pushing in, taking and then giving back as one pleases seems to be the blueprint of most of societies nobles and leaders.

you are alone as you walk past the many doors, the items on the shelf, when you meet strangers or happen upon new habitats. we have a hard time at first with this idea of bending a rule. it feels wrong, and in many ways it is. there is a certain normality that needs to happen for society to stay together. it is why the churches and families are important and why a strong rule of law keeps the most free places together. without edges there is not object, errant cancers will kill a host if left unchecked. so flash mobs, rioters and other forces of anarchy must get shut down. but single breaks in the system can be healthy, can test the overall system and can explore boundaries outside the everyday.

as one goes about each day a bit of excitement is needed. you tell a stranger they are beautiful, you pick up an object that is not yours and move it, you insist on a seat that is not yours and take it. an imaginary force of order tries to make sense of it all. an expectation that this is all going to work and that the bank will never close, that your parents will never abandon you and that no one will ever open your door who should not be there. but in this all a randomness occurs that proves most best are off the table, the air gets strange as the elders reluctantly let go of an order and time they think is theirs. order and chaos grind against one another as the sun arches high on the horizon.