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What’s the opposite of ‘rule’? The noun not the verb. What would an unrule, a factor that promotes unruly behavior, be? Aside, the archaic “ruly” (‘amenable to discipline or order’) is a great word and should be brought back.
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‘License’ seems close. Licentious behavior is positive-defined unruly behavior. Moral licensing effects rely less on explicit permission from authority figures and more on observing a first example of the behavior with no consequences, esp from a supposed moral superior.
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chaos? license? disorder? trap? stumbling block?
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Unrules sit between totalitarian principle (“anything not forbidden is compulsory”) and liberal principle (“everything that’s not forbidden is allowed”) Apparently the German version is “everything that’s not allowed is forbidden”
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"Whim"? They prob *do* have underlying rules, but they're so underlying that.. And they *do* promote unruly behaviour, as in behaviour not constrained or directed by [explicit] rules And imply "fucking around and finding out"
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To me, it’s the feeling of Mad Max. People almost apathetic to their reality - past, and future. They fight like hell for power, perhaps out of base survival instincts. They’ve pretty much have given up hope, but fight on out of desperation. It’s life in Fall 2021 for many.