January 1998
Monkey Logic
The rules we need to live by are the rules of nature which are unspoken. They are written in our souls, encoded in our being and we can access them by looking inside ourselves and around us because they are what made us. We are the physical embodiment of the result of those rules. They are bigger than us and they have come from somewhere else. They are awe inspiring and they command respect.
The rules that need to be broken are the rules derived from natural law, but modified and imposed by man. They are written and they tend to try to simplify and increment natural law as if to suggest that man is not capable of handling the wider parameters nature provides. This assumption is largely true however because history is strewn with examples of humans going wild with all that room to move, unable to handle the freedom found within the boundaries of natural law, inching their way toward the limits and eventually breaking them and wreaking havoc on themselves and everything around them. However, if we look at it another way we will also find that when we have evolved to understand the more bite sized versions of natural law we have imposed on ourselves, these man made laws fail to hold meaning for us in the bigger picture and we can have a whole lot more fun in life breaking them while at the same time getting more fulfillment from knowing the value of the higher natural laws that made us. In other words, impose rules to make life simpler. Break them to make life more fun.