Break the Rules

I happened to read one of the forwards that tell how a Paradigm is created.
"I don't know – that's how things are done around here".
That's always our reply to the question:
"Why are you doing this, why can’t it be done this way?" Or “Why do you think so?"

Everything we do, is something that's already done by someone and we are merely following. Even when there is slight shift in the paradigm, people reacts, there will be violent protests, and the whole Universe will try to destroy you.

Take any example in our day today life.
Government revised the syllabus to impart Sex Education. There were violent protests everywhere. When we ask the protesters why are they doing this? They say, Sex is bad and should not be taught to students and they utter the samewords, "That's how things are".

We are asked to code in a way with some coding standards. There may be better way to writing the code that increases readability. But we do as it was done by someone earlier. May be someday, some fool must have coded like that by accident and we are merely following.

Great people have definitely broken these rules sometime in their lives.

This is exactly what Ayn Rand is trying to say in her book "Fountain Head" via the character "Howard Roark".

Why do we follow these rules? Whom are we scared of?

Don’t you think it’s a topic to contemplate?