[tolerance]

> "You must learn the rules so you can properly break them.”

Paraphrasing a similar remark, I think I pulled from "sed & awk” [1]: A reference can teach you the rules, but they don’t show you how to really use them. There's the difference between reading the rules of a sport and actually playing the game.

Tangent: I’m beginning to question how broad the line is between a “rule breaker” and an acute student of tradition at odds a sort of institutionalized inertia. Maybe this “Words with Spaces” guy is on to something.

> Isn't the whole purpose of language to communicate the realities of World? As their brother, I think they mostly write to obfuscate intentions... I prefer the honesty of pure dumb.

This may speak to the significance of the court jesters of the past. And perhaps the rise of virtue signaling today?

[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/

[ProllyInfamous]

"You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride..." [0]

Copspeak for technically you're correct, but we're still going to fuck with you.

[0] A cop actually said this to me (I asked him whether he was violating a 3rd-party's Fourth Amendment by questioning); handcuffed, he tucked a Miranda Card into my buttondown's shirtpocket, tapping condescendingly about my questioning his authority. And what a ride it was.

[tolerance]

> “If the law is against you, talk about the evidence,” said a battered barrister “If the evidence is against you, talk about the law, and, since you ask me, if the law and the evidence are both against you, then pound on the table and yell like hell”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/