Rules are easy to proclaim. Power decides how they’re enforced.

The Hen Commandments: Cluck Yourself First is a sharp, adult satirical allegory that dissects moral authority, institutional hypocrisy, and the selective enforcement of virtue. In a tightly ordered barnyard governed by commandments meant to guide behavior, the rules remain sacred—even as their interpretation quietly shifts to favor those in charge.

As leaders redefine morality to protect status and control, obedience becomes performative and dissent increasingly suspect. Through animal allegory and biting humor, Dr. John Elcik exposes how moral frameworks are weaponized, how authority cloaks itself in righteousness, and how institutions reward conformity while demanding sacrifice from others.

This is not a playful farmyard fable.

The Hen Commandments is an adult satirical novel for readers who appreciate political allegory, social critique, and stories that challenge the gap between preached values and practiced behavior. Provocative, darkly funny, and uncomfortably familiar, it asks a dangerous question:

When morality becomes policy, who decides what virtue really means—and who is exempt from it?