# SELCO: Someone WILL Enforce the New Rules When the SHTF…And You Probably WON’T Like It
**By Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper** *Via SGT Report*
We live in a world obsessed with categorization. Humans have an innate desire to place events, actions, and consequences into tidy little "boxes." We crave reasons for everything because it provides the comforting illusion that the world is orderly and that every problem has a clean, logical solution. We lean on norms and rules as if they were etched in stone, believing that society functions based on a social contract that is universally respected.
But what happens when that contract is voided?
In a true, large-scale SHTF (S#!t Hits The Fan) scenario, those "stone-etched" rules are the first casualties. While many people spend their time debating the ethics of survival or the nuances of societal breakdown, the reality of a collapsed environment is far more brutal and indifferent to your sensibilities.
### The Illusion of "Reasonable" Order We desperately want to live in a world where we can "make a stand" based on current moral frameworks. We believe that if we follow the rules, the world will reciprocate. However, according to experts like SELCO—who lived through the total societal collapse of the Balkans in the 1990s—the idea that the current rules will apply when the grid goes down is a dangerous fantasy.
When resources become scarce and the power structures that enforce "civilized" behavior evaporate, the vacuum is not filled by the strongest moral compass; it is filled by whoever has the capacity to enforce their own will.
### The New Rulebook In a genuine crisis, the "rules" of your neighborhood, city, or nation will be rewritten in real-time by those willing to do what is necessary to survive. When the supply chains break and the grocery store shelves are bare, the legalistic framework we currently rely on becomes nothing more than a historical footnote.
Someone *will* enforce the new rules. It might be a local warlord, a desperate mob, or a group of neighbors who have decided that your supplies are their solution to starvation. In that environment, "fairness" is a luxury that few can afford, and your ideological stance on how things "should" be will hold zero weight against a man with a weapon and a hungry family.
### You Won’t Like It The most jarring aspect of a true SHTF scenario is not just the lack of services—it is the loss of the comfortable consensus we currently enjoy. The enforcement of the "new rules" will be harsh, personal, and likely terrifying.
As SELCO has pointed out repeatedly in his writings, the people who survive are not necessarily the ones with the most "moral" arguments or the loudest complaints about how the system *should* be working. They are the ones who accept the reality of the situation immediately, discard the now-useless expectations of the past, and adapt to the brutal environment of the present.
The takeaway is sobering: If you are waiting for a return to normalcy or for someone to step in and save the current way of life, you are setting yourself up for failure. When the SHTF, the people enforcing the new order will not care about your rights, your logic, or your belief system.
Prepare accordingly, because when the transition happens, you almost certainly won't like the new rules—but you will have no choice but to deal with them.
