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Disorder, Discipline, Order and Obedience

Discipline is what our lives begin with and lead into. We are driven into it from the day we're born: a long set of rules that are 'good' for us. It starts when we're way young. Fold the blanket. Do the chores. Get up regardless at a certain early hour, and many more. The theme follows through with set times using set things that are sold to (or enforced on) us. Fast forward and you'll find that these habits enable you to easily fit into a set world (which explains the "good" thing about them). It seems that the whole idea is to fall in line early so that we don't have a tough time fitting in when we need to later. It helps us get up early for school/college/work, keeps our rooms neat, and makes better use of our time and resources, and they don't just stop there. This kind of order also brings in some form of justice and merit - like rewarding the trouble taken to be early with first come first serve where people actually keep to queues. It allow