No one I have ever met blames bats, even if bat stew theory is true. Bats are not for snacking!

As the resident electrician I would like to point out the journeyman make 26 an hr, or a very high value apprentice. You do have be an apprentice for four years but 15-20 an hour is nothing to sneeze at. You can make more if you go on the road, which is the second rule of capitalism, chase opportunity.

Same goes for the bronze age collapse and the fall of Rome. Had their wisdom and knowledge been preserved, the world now would look mighty different, not for better or worse though, humans do as humans does...

Band of Brothers right? God its been years now, should rewatch, wasn't he pissed cause someone shat in his foxhole?

Its kinda interesting the more you think about it though. The city can post speed limits and force you to pay heavy fines for it. But if the highway is packed with people driving 80 while you are trying to stick to the posted speed limit of 55 you might get in trouble for disrupting the flow of traffic. So when in Rome do as the Romans do. The law is more like guidelines than actual rules.

I assume he means something like: free thinkers don't follow THE rules but they do follow their own. But they follow societies rules regardless. I'm not a sheep but I do everything a sheep does. The attempted meme falls apart because like no one has ever drove through a red light at some ungodly hour when there is literally no traffic.