Nah, it's a question of knowing when and how to dodge the rules, is all. Never do it as an open display of contempt and revolt against power, because as we say, "the nobility does not carry the sword in vain". Don't set yourself up against the political system, just do your thing on the QT downlow and you'll be left alone most of the tim…
Nah, it's a question of knowing when and how to dodge the rules, is all. Never do it as an open display of contempt and revolt against power, because as we say, "the nobility does not carry the sword in vain". Don't set yourself up against the political system, just do your thing on the QT downlow and you'll be left alone most of the time.
Easy peasy example: homeschooling as in not sending your kid to school is illegal (as is not sending your kid to school period) - but homeschooling as a group of parents running a small non-profit alternative school is legal, and will be granted funding from the commune (city/county council).
See what I mean? If those hypothetical parents had done the theatrical thing, yellng about "muh rights" and such they would of been stomped on. Instead, they game the system into giving them what they wanted in the first place.
Want to sing at the pub? Host a karaoke contest. Suddenly it's legal.
That's something I think americans find hard to understand about much of the European nations: we have had to learn how to handle authoritarian and totalitarian systems of governements, and are wuite adept at it by now, especially here in the north - after all, when everyone thinks everyone else is compliant and pliable, no one bothers to actually check under the cover so to speak.
Nah, it's a question of knowing when and how to dodge the rules, is all. Never do it as an open display of contempt and revolt against power, because as we say, "the nobility does not carry the sword in vain". Don't set yourself up against the political system, just do your thing on the QT downlow and you'll be left alone most of the time.
Easy peasy example: homeschooling as in not sending your kid to school is illegal (as is not sending your kid to school period) - but homeschooling as a group of parents running a small non-profit alternative school is legal, and will be granted funding from the commune (city/county council).
See what I mean? If those hypothetical parents had done the theatrical thing, yellng about "muh rights" and such they would of been stomped on. Instead, they game the system into giving them what they wanted in the first place.
Want to sing at the pub? Host a karaoke contest. Suddenly it's legal.
That's something I think americans find hard to understand about much of the European nations: we have had to learn how to handle authoritarian and totalitarian systems of governements, and are wuite adept at it by now, especially here in the north - after all, when everyone thinks everyone else is compliant and pliable, no one bothers to actually check under the cover so to speak.