As I progress with the project No Title: No Rules I am starting to understand a little better what I mean. Not only am I thinking about what it means to have no title but perhaps more importantly what it means to have no rules. Rules are all about boundaries. We hear it all the time: he stepped over a boundary; he crossed the line; I drew a line in the sand and so on. Boundaries are an integral part of Rules. So by exploring Rules I am also exploring boundaries.
This brings me back to last night. The ultimate boundary is death. This is one rule we cannot break. One moment we are alive the next we are gone. It is becoming clear as I work at the project and problem that this is going to become a dominant aspect. We may create rules for ourself but there is only one rule we can never break. When this rule is applied it effects not only the person who dies but also the many people left behind and who we had great impact on.
I suppose rules also are what make us human. We have rules about all sorts of things. We give these rule titles and these titles are then applied to things. This is the way that civilisation starts and then more rules are developed and so on until a point is reached when the whole thing collapses in on itself. Am I making sense yet? I am not sure whether I am but it is an intriguing exercise to and make order out of the chaos or should say develop0 some rule and give it a title?
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