Rules

These rules and requirements are beginning to stack.
Personal rules, government rules, societal rules.
Why do we continue to amuse?
These rules can be anything from arbitrary, to mandatory.
Trends which infect our families and societies.
Politics which we cannot seem to escape.
Procedural steps that cannot be altered.
Will it all ever falter?
Or will we continue to blindly follow?
Follow until we find ourselves in a stagnation nation.
Instead of questioning how we move forward,
we continue to question how we get followers.

Some may follow based on just means.
The rest follow for some "hip" teen.
We dance and laugh as we lose trust for our leaders,
yet we admire the addicts on TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter.
Our logic as a species has been diminished.
Instead of spending our collective efforts on bettering our leaders,
bettering our lives, bettering human society for our children;
it seems as though the only real progress that has been made,
is progress behind making the coolest app.

As I mention earlier, these rules only continue to grow.
Arbitrary, frankly, stupid rules that tell society what to do.
We find it gross that we were told what to do in 2020,
yet we are so blind to see that we follow rules behind the internet already.
We are so blind to see they already mandate what we interact with daily.
We do what we think people will like and follow, because they feed us what's trendy.
We have absolutely ZERO influence over our lives.
So either wise up, sober up from the phone,
learn to hone on your true self.
Or continue to follow arbitrary rules.
Do what you think is cool.