"The lesson is: only those with power can make (enforceable) rules"

Make up rules and then watch as people enforce the rules on themselves... because.

But...

"There's more evidence to come yet," said the White Rabbit...

Research the Oracle at Delphi and exactly how the Oracle's message was conveyed to a petitioner.

If you needed a particularly good divination to inspire the troops, sway or control a population, do you think the amount of gold "donated" had anything to do with the "interpretation" of the Oracle's "pronouncement?"

Ted Cruz / 29 July 2021 / U. S. Senate /
https://youtu.be/N_bA3V8Irmw?t=22242 (timestamp)

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight
Is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's
Off with her head
Remember...
What the Dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head

https://youtu.be/AVER6hyoyJo?t=30

It comprises the very fibers,
That are twisted into thread,
Then woven, warp and weft,
This perception in our head.

Weave, knit, braid, crochet, felt, plait.
Hands make machines, cast needles,
Guide threads and strands into place,
Be it credal cloth or shrouds of evil.

In the open, in the sunlight,
A thing of value, use, produced.
In the darkness, in the shadows,
Malefic tricks of mind induced.

Look there, in the shadows,
Where you are afraid to look.
Do you see there, in the shadows,
Do you see the hands at work?

At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, called out, "Silence!" and read out from his book, " All persons more than a mile high to leave the court."

Everybody looked at Alice.

"I'm not a mile high," she said.

"You are," said the King.

"Nearly two miles high," added the Queen.

"Well, I shan't go, at any rate," said Alice: "besides that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now."

"Its the oldest rule in the book," said the King.

"Then it ought to have been Number One," said Alice.