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Tag Archives: Rebellion
THE SEVEN REASONS WE OBEY AUTHORITY
By Phillip Schneider Source: Waking Times Rebels are a very important part of society, but they rarely get the recognition they deserve. They help us break through old norms and keep us from falling into groupthink. However, human nature urges most of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authority, Brittany Pettibone, culture, fear, Government, Habit, indifference, Injustice, moral obligation, psychology, Rebellion, Rebels, Sanctions, self confidence, self-interest, society, Sociology, Stockholm syndrome
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The Alt-Media Has Way More Fun than the Mainstream Media
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The corporate-state media lives in terror that the truth will somehow leak out of the corporate-Imperial fortress, imperiling their jobs and perks. It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Alt-Media, alternative media, big data, censorship, corporate media, corporate news, corporate-state media, dissent, elites, Fake News, independent media, Mainstream Media, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Rebellion, social control, Social Media
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What Are We Working For? The Economic System is a Labyrinthine Trap
By Edward Curtin Source: Global Research One also knows from his letters that nothing appeared more sacred to Van Gogh than work.” – John Berger, “Vincent Van Gogh,” Portraits Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, elites, Film, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged activism, Art, At Eternity’s Gate, Consciousness, culture, Economic system, Economics, elites, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rebellion, social control, society, Vincent Van Gogh, Work
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True Revolution
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com A radical change in human behavior away from its patterns of oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide will necessarily involve a drastic transformation in humanity’s relationship with thought. I’ve been saying this over and over again … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Health, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged activism, Adyashanti, Awakening, capitalism, Consciousness, Eckhart Tolle, Economics, elites, Evolution, Olicharchy, Paradigm Shift, Philosophy, politics, Power Structures, psychology, Rebellion, Revolution, Sociology, spirituality
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Slow suicide and the abandonment of the world
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Alienation, Conformity, Consumerism, culture, Death, depression, Experience, fear, Life, Philosophy, psychology, Rebellion, Slow Suicide, society, Sociology, suicide
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Reviving the Spirit of Existential Rebellion in a World of Propaganda, Lies, and Self Deception
By Edward Curtin Source: Dissident Voice Search for nothing anymore, nothing except truth. Be very still and try to get at the truth. And the first question to ask yourself is: How great a liar am I? — D. H. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, corporate news, culture, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality
Tagged Albert Camus, corporate news, culture, D.H. Lawrence, Existentialism, Fake News, Freedom, Gandhi, Jacques Ellul, Mainstream News, media, MSM, Oligarchy, Philsophy, propaganda, Rebellion, society, Truth
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Live Free or Die: The Psychology of Rebellion & Dissent
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “I rebel—therefore we exist.” ~Albert Camus, The Rebel Dissent is a tricky subject. The need to rebel against atrocity is deeply ingrained in the human condition. Even if most of us don’t act … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Albert Camus, culture, dissent, Freedom, Liberty, Morality, Philosophy, Rebellion, society, The Rebel, Violence
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Depicting Perpetual Crimes committed by Corporate Culture and its Mainstream Media
Russian Novels Combating Global Capitalist Nightmare By Andre Vltchek Source: Dissident Voice Imagine Moscow being taken over by some international corporate cartel. By a monster which has its own factories and office buildings, security services, private prisons, re-education (‘training’) centers, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, History, Neoliberalism, Revolution, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Boris Yeltsin, capitalism, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Dystopia, Eddie, Eduard Limonov, freedom of speech, It’s Me, Neoliberalism, R.A.B., Rebellion, Revolution, Russia, Russian Literature, Sergei Minaev, surveillance state, USSR
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