The rules a society lives by are put in place by governments and enforced by police, backed up with a system of punishment for those caught breaking the rules.
Great stock is placed in the rules, they give governments a reason to exist. Enforcement by police is seen as critical and the threat of punishment makes it seem like police are everywhere.
Sometimes a new group enters a society, such as immigrants and they don't know the rules and do not care about them and in breaking the rules they expose the low numbers of police and the veneer of the threat of punishment.
At this time society turns against the immigrants, wishing them to return to their country of origin, as well as seeking more rules to confine them and more police to enforce the rules.
In other words, people want more of the same, more rules and more enforcement, allowing politicians to remain in a job and governments to grow fat.
However, in exposing the deficiencies of a system the immigrants have done that society a favour. It allows society to examine whether rules and enforcement are the best method by which a society can exist. In finding another way of acceptance and collaboration, a new way forward can be found.
This happens rarely as the fear mongers demand enforcement and immediate change. Rules, more rules, enforcement and punishment do not work in your own family, so why would they work with immigrants and the broader society.
One of the signs of an advancing society is less rules, not more.
From my guide Crazy Horse through Ian Rogers Director Sphinx Spiritual
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