New York. Where people bring their dogs into cafes and grocery stores, and (contemporaneous event elided, in the interest of not developing a habit of reporting annoying things directly to the internet). They call it a "power move." It has to do with will, yes, and ascendancy, but more -- a belief that breaking the rules is the rule. It would never occur to them to make new rules, or fashion a civilized basis of encounter that accommodates all of these anarchic impulses. It therefore relies on a set of rules to be defied on the basis of the personal will to power. A demonstration.
