1/ "Game rules" are the bits of consensus reality that many people adhere to, often while never explicitly asking or wondering if they make any sense at all.

"Dr . Harold Garfinkle, a UCLA sociologist, has written a whole book recounting experiments that demonstrate that it
2/ takes remarkably little breaching of local Game Rules before subjects begin to show disorientation, anxiety, anger, panic, delusions, “ inappropriate ” emotions, etc.—wigging out, or going ballistic in lay language.
3/ every culture (and every sub - culture) has different Game Rules regarding speech and behavior, each tends to believe that its own tribal rules represent the only “correct” way for humans to interact with each other."
~Robert Anton Wilson
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