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We are all sheep

For five thousand or so years mankind has been making rules that are based on nothing more than someone's desire to control.  Control others. So as to convince large masses to obey and fall in line.   Some are in fact just stories.  Stories made powerful by clever marketing before marketing was a term.  Facebook has nothing on it.

Here are some examples.

1. Monarchy
2.  Religion
3.  Sports - anything from the Pee Wee leagues to Major leagues to the Olympics
4.  Organization structures including those in Government like the Presidency etc.
5.  Marriage
6.  Divorce
7.  God
8. Taxes
9. Flags
10. Countries and smaller geographic zones
11. Money (anything from sea shells to digital)
12. Time

Some rules and inventions were made to help the species thrive and actually not collide into each other - literally.  Examples are:

1. Define and develop pathways to get around (e.g. road, highway etc) 
2.  Drive on one side of said road (right or left - you decide but stick to it within a geographic fence)
3.  Cultivate food
4.  Prepare fire
5.  Develop medicine

The point of the above is to highlight the basic fact that of all the rules and regs man has invented the top 12 are not based on science.  They are illusions and have really no meaning other than to attempt to ensure order in an otherwise meaningless existence whose sole purpose seems to be consumption of resource(s) around us.  The last five listed above are exclusively designed so as to allow for this consumption to occur unabated.

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