Rules made to be broken
Even nature has rules applied to it. Or should I say that nature has rules ascribed to it by scientists. They are more of explanations than of rules. Which means they can be interpreted in different ways by different people. Any rule can follow this same logic. A rule is an explanation of the un-explained. Since every person has a different perspective every rule can have a different meaning to every person. This is why semantics is often the most argued point in all philosophy. How you say or interpreted words or phrase something. The use of grammar and spelling. These are all rules, rules open to interpretation. Of course rules mean little to me. They are just jail cells for the mind. If you want a certain outcome you of course follow the rules. If you want to create a new outcome you break the rules. It is of course the rules that you fight against in your everyday life. The speed limits, the stop signs, the taxes, the tolls, 10 items or less, buying things illegally. Rules are being broken everyday.
I'm sure your thinking that I am talking about having anarchy. Total chaos. By defining anarchy don't you take a bit of what makes anarchy away from it. By defining something that wants to destroy definitions does it inherently self destruct. Can you have a definition of anarchy? We like to define things in modern life into very small pinpointed segments of "correctness". Everyday words and definitions are being destroyed, they are being semantically dismantled to make life easier for those that are bound by those definitions. They are the rule breakers that pick apart the language. They do it to undermine the rules and change society at it's basic level. Speech
We are coded in 5 ways, two of the most important are: what we see and what we hear. If you can break the rules of one of these coding procedures you can control the populace through it's coding. Break down a definition or change the definition of a word and you can control how a word is being used. Break the rules and you can control the words. Control the words and you control learning.
Breaking the rules can be a good thing, or a bad thing, but since there is no such thing as good and bad...it's just an action.
I'm sure your thinking that I am talking about having anarchy. Total chaos. By defining anarchy don't you take a bit of what makes anarchy away from it. By defining something that wants to destroy definitions does it inherently self destruct. Can you have a definition of anarchy? We like to define things in modern life into very small pinpointed segments of "correctness". Everyday words and definitions are being destroyed, they are being semantically dismantled to make life easier for those that are bound by those definitions. They are the rule breakers that pick apart the language. They do it to undermine the rules and change society at it's basic level. Speech
We are coded in 5 ways, two of the most important are: what we see and what we hear. If you can break the rules of one of these coding procedures you can control the populace through it's coding. Break down a definition or change the definition of a word and you can control how a word is being used. Break the rules and you can control the words. Control the words and you control learning.
Breaking the rules can be a good thing, or a bad thing, but since there is no such thing as good and bad...it's just an action.
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Oops...I accidentally removed my comment...I wrote that you might be interested in Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language--1974. You would also love Roland Barthes...anything by him is fascinating...you will most likely enjoy Mythologies--1957.
Barthe would agree with what I've said I'm sure. Though he'd probably say I was doing the same thing.
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