rules

Sit up. Sit down. Sit still.
Don't throw your pencil on the floor.
Don't rush. Don't swear. Don't laugh. Don't stare.
Hands up. Hands down. Don't tip your chair.

Turn round. Line up. Stand straight.
Get off the wall and face the front.
No noise. No mess. Sit here, not there.
Yes, you. SHUT UP. Life isn't fair.

Divide. Rule off. Full stop.
Don't fiddle with your shoes. Look up.
Don't giggle at the back. Don't burp.
How dare you burp. Get down to work.

Grow up. Pipe down. Do as I say.
Step into line. Don't disobey.
Don't sulk. Don't interrupt. Don't frown.
Don't use your will. Stop looking round.

The Principle of Emergence
“…the ant queen does not direct an army of drones. Drones take direction from a small set of simple signals released by other drones. A drone collecting food leaves behind a special scent, and other drones that pick up that scent will follow the path to the food source. The most direct path to the food becomes the most successful and so pragmatic behavior helps drones to “determine” the best path to take. No one drone knows where the food is or has a map of the terrain, nor does the queen: the emergent system is smarter than the individual members of the colony and acts as an effective decision-making process.”
That's fine for a system. Very good, in fact. Of course you can forget about ant-rights, and you can forget about systems outside that system - like Africa, Antarchia, or the year 2088. Ants, at least, are limited (for the moment) by their physical capabilities: British ants can't reach the food sources of African ants. But if they ever could, and if they became capable of carrying home far more than they could ever consume themselves, building themselves ant-butter mountains, ant-European fortresses, ant-weapons of mass destruction to keep the other anthills under their control...
Which little British ants would be prepared to stop the march to the food source?

Every pragmatic argument says you should work from within the system if you want to change it. The system is too big and strong to be fought from outside, and from the inside you can harness that strength and turn it back on itself. But while inside, you have to play by the rules. And what if you can't do that?
Those who can are the people who really make change happen. The others get spat out and turn into society's debris.