We
tend to think of "conformity" and "rebellion" as opposite
forms of behavior yet rebellion and conformity are actually two sides of the
same syndrome. Both are responses to pressure which keep the victim reacting to
and therefore "conforming" to the pressure source. There is a third
way of dealing with pressure that involves neither rebellion nor conformity
which allows a person to fully develop his innate potential without outside
interference.
Injustice
drives people to rebellion: Injustice in politics, in the home, in education,
in the dog-eat-dog business world, in a system based on legality rather than on
fairness, common sense and decency and yet rebellion is not a reasonable response,
it is an unreasonable response to unreasonable pressure and in our rebellion we
are all overtly or quietly going mad.
There
is a creative rebellion, a rebellion without emotion, judgment or resentment,
a rebellion that consists simply of the poised observation of what is but few
know about this correct rebellion, because early in life we get sucked into a
destructive one which works against our best interests. Even the quietest,
sticky-sweet people are secretly violent which manifests in their victims as
expressed violence. What I am saying is that society is made up of the
obviously rotten and the apparently good, each type perpetuating the system
that produces rebels and conformists.
Rebellion
arises against cruel authority but behind such authority stands hypocrisy. The
real sinners are not the rebels but those who drive them to rebellion, all the
wolves in sheep's clothing: cruel parents, teachers, preachers, bureaucrats
and the downright criminals hiding behind the cloaks of station and legality.
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