The Human Nature To Rebel…

Before continuing to read the article (and just to get you in the mood): Please take a few moments to watch this video entitled: "Cool Hand Luke - What We've Got Here Is Failure To Communicate."

For those of you who don't know what this video means or why it's up here, I would like to explain to you that this little piece of work is from a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and staring Paul Newman.

I chose to put this part as an introduction to what is coming up next because it is also the intro for a Guns N' Roses song called Civil War (which is also the song I've been listening to through out the whole time I'm writing this article. That being said, here we go:

     Most people go through their lives following the rules, abiding by them, not even questioning why they’re there, or what’s the logic behind them. Some people, however, chose not to follow the rules. They go about their lives asking why they should follow a system that are just there to restrain their freedom. The same system that supposedly offers freedom, equality and a good living but in reality fights against what it all means.

     History is filled with people that “want to resist control or authority.” Mainly because they’re simply fed up with what this authoritarian world has to offer. They feel controlled or trapped in an ever-lasting and repetitive circle that binds them with certain restrictions. “It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.” - Taylor Caldwell

     These restrictions in return force people to walk different routes in their lives than the ones they originally planned for themselves. Routes and decisions that they don’t want but are more forced to take, obliging them to go about their lives doing something they don’t want to do, hence being slaves to a world that they didn’t create. A compulsory system created by previous generations. Isn’t that a kind of slavery?

     Those people that wish for freedom that they can’t get, wanting to break through the rotten system that is forced upon them are labeled as rebels. The pure definition of a rebel is someone who refuses allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority. “What is a rebel? A man who says no.” - Albert Camus

     But I ask you this, isn’t it pure human nature to negatively react to something they feel is being forced down their throats, to fight against it?

People rebel because they feel like the system is simply incorrect. A way of showing that they don’t agree with what the system has done to the world. How it limits their lives into something they never wanted.

     From the day we are born we are controlled. Taught the monetary values of things around us. How in order to live well you need to have pieces of paper called “money,” paper that soon you find yourself being a slave too. “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” - Ayn Rand

     Generation after generation, people fight against that, but always fail as the majority of society just sits back and watches the view from afar, simply abiding by the rules.

     You start off as a child, with dreams to become a pilot, or an astronaut, or even a simple writer. And as you grow older you start losing sight of that dream, simply because you don’t have the capabilities to do so. You grow older and through out most of your life people around you are always giving you the same advice. “Well you got to love what you work until you work in what you love.”

     You know what happens eventually? Sure you can go do anything else aside from what you really wish for. And you start forcing yourself to love what you do. Time goes by, years pass, and you’re still doing the same thing.

     Until one day, you forget about all your dreams, what you originally used to love. And what you were forced to do years ago (and forced to love) ends up the only thing you remember doing. You keep convincing (or fooling) yourself that you love what you’re forced to do.

     Sooner or later you’ll end up doing what you think you’ve always loved, all for nothing but monetary reasons. “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” - Benjamin Franklin.

     It’s simply a never-ending cycle. Generations after generations go by doing the same thing, teaching younger ones that it’s normal, it’s what everyone has to do simply because they got stuck doing the same thing so why shouldn’t everyone else go through the same crap.

     It’s like the little child who used to get bullied a lot in school by the senior and older students. He builds up frustration and anger that eventually explodes. And when it does, when he’s old enough and is now a senior, it becomes his turn to bully the younger generation. Taking his turn in the cycle.

     I’ve come to realize that this system is too engraved in our society, and changing it is simply not possible. It’s like a wrecked car that my parents completely destroyed in a huge car accident then later gave it to me as a present saying “here you go son, it’s your turn to drive now.”

     It seems that the only way out of this ever-lasting cycle of doom that we’ve all shared in creating is to simply just try to find something you really and truly love to do and just stick by it. To keep believing in your dream, keep fighting for what you want to do, and to not get forced into something you don’t want to do simply because there are no other options around you.

     And don't think you're breaking free from the new kind of slavery, the monetary slavery I call it. Never forget that to live, you need to come up with a mean to generate money from doing what you love. Why? Simply because the world won’t let you live without becoming a slave to that little piece of paper.

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” - Ayn Rand