Rebel Spirit

"Cause we've been trodding on the wine press much too long. Rebel, Rebel"

Robert Marley

What does it mean to rebel? It's really not possible to say unless we put the rebel in context and ask the question "What is the rebel rebelling against?" We have conflicting archetypes of the rebel in our society, some good, mostly bad. The good rebels all exist in the past, even the "forefathers" of the american revolution were (at the time) deemed "Terrorists" by the king of England. It's not until a struggle is won that one can be transformed from "Terrorist" to "Forefather" in the ultimate stretch of vindication. But when you are the king of a mighty colonial empire the word "Rebel" is a very bad word indeed. The king, the kingdom, is the context that the rebel is rebelling against. However, for those who undergo great disparities under said kingdom, the rebel is automatically a hero among the people.

While the king and the kingdom would portray a rebel as a villainous, bloodthirsty sociopath, the people know when the rebel is a passionate soul who can no longer tolerate the injustice in the land. But many such rebels live and die without vindication and the history books of kings will forever label them as "Terrorists" whose brutal end serves as a warning to would be rebels. One might think that a nation born out of rebellion would forever be in solidarity with the roles of the rebels of the world. But our rebellious forefathers were content to keep the same inequities of an aristocratic British society as long as they we're on the receiving end of the disparity. They were not fighting against a class system or an ownership society, they were not fighting for the rights of women, minorities, or the poor, they were fighting for themselves to be on top of a very similar, criminal empire.

The United States now stands as the worlds only self proclaimed Super Power, an empire by anyones' standard. But if power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, what does Super Power do? Hmmmm.... I think it's safe to say that the United states government is the largest and most corrupt empire to have ever stamped its' brand on the planet. The United States and all who worship the false American idol are now the context against which the rebel spirit rises. It doesn't matter if it's someone who plants a bomb on a US naval ship in the port of Yemen, or someone who sets SUVs ablaze in Oregon, or Someone who flies a small plane into the IRS building in Texas. The empire permeates everything on the planet, especially every resource of venal or strategic value, and every form of communication to monitor, shape, and mold our social discourse.

The rebel spirit is just that, spirit: the fire within. Those whose passions rise when they witness injustice in all of its forms have a potent spirit and strong convictions. They feel that they are on this planet to carry out a mission set for them by their own soul, an overwhelmingly benevolent force in the universe. Only the owners of a corporation can watch what that corporation does to the planet and think "That's perfectly fine, no problem here.", anyone with a heart knows when their land is being raped before their very eyes. This is the model of empire, to extract wealth from the far reaches of the planet and pile the gold high in your own backyard. Empire is all about ownership, and ownership is all about stealing and killing. First you kill people, then you steal land and resources, then repeat; you now have an empire. And when you build an empire this way you solve every problem the same way, kill more people, steal more resources.

Churches are the empires of the spiritual realm, the context within which one may rebel. But churches are more concerned with the ultimate deviant, the devil. The word "Devil" comes from the word "Deviate" and just like "Rebel" one must ask what one is deviating from. Just as we're taught to believe that the rebel is a "bloodthirsty terrorist" who "hates our way of life", we're also taught that Lucifer was an ambitious and defiant angel who challenged the authority of the Christian god Jehovah. So the devil, Lucifer, Satan, is basically Osama Bin Laden hiding in the ultimate cave: Hell, from which he sends his demons out into the world to wreak havoc among good Christian souls. Oddly, we're also taught about Jesus, who was pretty rebellious for a god. Oh, but he's a god, if he were a man he would have been a bad guy, even a "Terrorist" fighting against the Roman empire. It's a good thing he's not an ordinary man or he might inspire others to follow in kind.

So expect your nations mainstream news to be quick with the "Terrorist" label when anything threatens our homeland insecurity. Just like the tower of Babel our empire is an offense against god, and man, and goddess, and woman. The earth herself is the princess locked away in the tower that we all must risk everything to save, and if we are to save her we must bring the tower down behind us. The tower of Babylon is an outdated mode of dominance, the commanding heights of empire, and it must be dismantled for our next phase of true equality to begin. We can no longer be satisfied with the calculated coup replacing one tyrant with another, this titanic has already submerged and whoever the captain is they cannot stop the downward spiral to the bottom of the sea. Let go of your attachments to this false entity and begin to work for the planet, the people, and all of the natural world, it's the most rebellious thing you can do.

We refused to be what you wanted us to be

We are what we are, that's the way it's going to be, if you don't know

You can't educate I for no equal opportunity

Talkin' 'bout my freedom, people freedom and liberty

'Cause we've been trodding on the wine press much too long

Rebel, Rebel

Babylon system is the vampire

Sucking the children day by day, yeah

Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire

Sucking the blood of the sufferers

Building church and university

Deceiving the people continually

Me say them graduating thieves and murderers look out now

They're sucking the blood of the sufferers

Tell the children the truth

'Cause we've been trodding on the wine press much too long

Rebel, Rebel

And we've been taken for granted much too long

Rebel, Rebel