Freedom itself can be trapping. This sounds counterintuitive based on everything that has been so passionately put forward. Wasn’t the system and ex...
Existence within nature is always living in a carefully balanced state of fragility. Or is it. Perhaps it is from the relative point of view. From t...
Systems of nature need to incentivise you to survive. If they didn’t then your very basic needs wouldn’t be met. You need to feel hungry to feel a de...
Rebellion is not resistance. It’s not a position that exists solely in opposite to someone, something or an idea. It’s far beyond that. If it existe...
Control. Oppression. Rules. Constraint. None of these things feel good. They take away, they add on someone else's agenda. They don't feel good. You...
Systems and the structures they inhabit are designed to make you powerless. Mostly not through malign intent, but rather through self-serving structur...
There is no point to prove. Not right or wrong. No single line in the sand to which you just conform. There can’t be. That which was wrong yesterday...
Contemporary society in particular diagnoses stress and burnout. An aberration. A disorder. A disease. A personal failure. Mounting stress on stress....
Adventure implies an open road. Freedom. A path without a destination. It’s how life starts and potentially how life ends. Why then does contemporary...
External voices provide security. Cover. They provide the feeling that ultimately it's someone else that bears the risk. That appears the bargain. But...
If personal rebellion invokes following your own path, your own voice does that dismiss the value of external advice. Whatever the source? No. But it...
Society provides a promise of the trenched desire. And the problem with that is soon as that desire is completed, another one is served up. That endl...
Nothing about personal rebellion is a dismissal of the reality of societal pressure and tension. Instead it's a question of alignment. Alignment behin...
A quiet rebellion isn't one that demands attention. It doesn't require external validation and it doesn't play to the conventional metrics that the system demands.
A rebel is from the system, but not of it.
So much of self-help and wisdom in contemporary society is offered as a salvation.
We talk about unconditional love and reserve it for either the spiritual and the religious or alternaively for the young or infrim.