To My Son
January, 2004
Rules, It is Said, Exist to be Broken. But this misses the point. Many rules are already broken, existing like vending machines, long and widely suspected of having been designed with a purposeful and demonic—though seemingly arbitrary—inability to function as advertised. An example of a broken rule is "Money can't buy happiness," which, although theoretically supportable, is of use only to the happy, all others understanding it as "Not only are you poor, you're miserable."An...
