Rulers
"Rulers call something a "rule" to depersonalize their will when imposing it upon the ruled. It is a mental trick used to insulate the ruler from responsibility and confuse the matter in the mind of the ruled. The "rule" is presented as something abstract and external to the ruler, who presents himself as a disinterested middleman with no choice but to enforce the "rule". The purpose is to trick the ruled into accepting that he is helpless before the "rule" by making a show of the ruler's helplessness before the "rule". The ruler might even say he doesn't want to enforce the rule, but he has to, because it's a "rule". But there is no rule. It doesn't exist. The "rule" is an illusion conjured up by the ruler in the mind of the ruled to keep him in his place. What's real is the ruler's will and the gun in his hand."