Yes, in fact there are many rules that have a very good reason for being there. For example, putting your own O2 mask on before helping others in the event of depressurization. There's no better approach than that to maximize survival, and it's not necessarily what people come up with on their own.

I think it is quite dangerous to take the approach of throw away all the rules and let the chips fall. That's just what our rulers want us to do, because they come in, pick up the pieces, and make the new rules .. or alternately, some other reprehensible characters do and either way we're worse off than we started. In fact this is the purpose behind the many "woke" social movements that are being astroturfed by the establishment: get people to throw away the rules and scramble their brains so they can't figure out what rules are important.

We need to see when something isn't helping us (or is primarily helping others), think and collaborate to fix the rules. We need to see the strings of control that they tell us not to see, and carefully cut out the malign controllers, without damaging the system so badly that we can't feed ourselves. Waking up is the first step, but the next step is realizing that the situation is more complicated than just waking up and starting over.