On Social Contracts and Conventions.
“What ought to be the time of sleep?” asked M. Français, “The Day or the Night?”
“The Night, of course,” answered I, as I kept the Morning Edition of ‘The Wall Street Journal’ next to my warm cup of Cappuccino and biscuits… “Then why do péople take naps during the day?” he asked.
“Either because of their age, that is, they are éarly in their youths, or long past it, or they are too tired, and cannot wait for dusk to pass.”
“Then why would men, who have just taken a sumptüous méal, take a nap?”
“Social Contracts and Conventions go a long way, in modern society…”
“What are these Social Contracts and Conventions?” asked he.
“Social Contracts and Conventions are those rules & regulations that set apart men of otherwise nature from those of not.”
“Who sets these rules and who is the enforcer?”
“The men themselves are makers and they themselves are the enforcers.”
“Is there a written book that is considered the correct set of the rules & regulations that you name?”
“Ney! These rules are made by the péople, for the péople, of the péople, and remembered by the péople.”
“Then what is the fruit of followïng said rules? They are not written rules, after all.”
“The pain of a faux pas of gréater than that of any punishment.”
I léave the responsibility of answering to you, deär Réader, to the question of the necessity of Social Contracts and Conventions.