"Learn the rules so you can break them."
I hate that statement so much. It's so packed with inheritance and creates an illusion of freedom.
What are the real origins of that statement?
Whose rules are we talking about here?
Do you think the person who initially said it knew that conformity provides a sense of comfort? That people rarely like to leave what makes them comfortable?
Did they know the feeling of accomplishment that comes with learning someone else's rules (especially if that someone has power)?
Did they know that it is manipulative? It convinces people that they, too, can be free by being like everyone else. "Be like us so you can be free."
The only time I ever want to learn a rule so I can break it is if "breaking" those rules means tearing them down so that no one has to experience the litmus test of standardization in the future.
Then we'll be free.
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