Alive,still living an accepted life, all this time it feels as if we are directing a bit too much of inexpensive and “ineffective” rebellion. Smoking pot and unusual drinking habits when one enters college is another example of it. Rebelliousness is associated with “coolness” in education institutions and in general these days, but that again depends on the context. The kind of situation we may like to be in is to learn and nurture rebellion inside us, not letting it die down and yet not letting people know about it anytime( and ofcourse it takes time to write unix kernel).

Apart from the “cooler” rebellions, We realise that it is not easy to be rebellious and non-conforming in most of the societies. Even if we do find a niche, it would still mean no or little good to what we were hoping to do till next June. Even though the bearers(the youth i presume, atleast in quantity i think) of the idea are crude, the universal law of “getting informed” applies very well, and sadly, “willfulness” crumbles in the end because will was very ill-informed.

The biggest enemy of rebellion is within ourselves(usually), we see people “change” radically, come out of a coma sometimes, but seeming to emit same air of “selfness”. Rebelliousnes means “unjustifying” norms, but if we still justify what we are or were under the cover of whatever may be our “idea” of “right”, we see that its never going to happen( i was a born optimist).

If we peek at history , how individual emotions gave rise to rebellions is still beyond(almost) belief. It seems with time we have developed stronger “walls” for anybody to “penetrate” us. Good or bad is another essay, but just to categorise in the context of “rebellion”, people may fall under ::-

-people who think everything is fine, change occurs, we dont need to put a effort
- people who think change is necessary, but think its too risky to delve into such things
-people who see change as very important, but change usually is function of their own situation in life.

Combination of above and perseverance seems to be a worth a shot, but again without information required of knowing what to persevere is as good as me trying to reach south california with a map of North calorina.

Osho was a rebellion of sorts(I still cant understand how he could still retain so much anger after seeing god!!!), Fredrick Nietzsche was a dangerous and practical rebel, Socrates “dream” of utopia also…….(u kiddin me !). Think of it, Rebellion doesnt really live up to the meaning of itself(“superfluency” retained), rebellions survive only when they are accepted,the very fact the world’s most famous rebellions were “organised” manifests their acceptance.

Rebellion usually does more good than bad, it may not reach the end result which it sets out to seek , but it can shake the incumbent ideas , bring a small retrospection, even if its for a while, even if it happens only because of the fear that is instilled in the incumbent. “Got to be in the system to change the system” – i think the perfect rebellion has to rise from outside of both the “systems”, at the sametime not forgetting to look at both the systems when it tries to develop a system of its own.