You are only rebellious in the eyes of those who cannot control or manipulate you.
Those who cannot control you or manipulate you will try to bring you down by attacking your character. They will call you a rebel, a liar, a fraud, a traitor, an insurrectionist, an anarchist, or some other derogatory term in order to bring you down. It has nothing to do with you or who you are; it is all about the fact that they are not able to control you or to manipulate you into doing what they want you to do or living like they want you to.
When people cannot control you, they simply try to neutralize you, or as in today’s culture, to cancel you. This is especially true if you happen to be dealing with a narcissist or someone with a political agenda. Once their attempts to control you fall short, they turn to more sinister methods to make sure you fall into line, to neutralize you and make you a non-issue, or to simply destroy you so you are out of their way.
Whether it is your boss, your family, your friends, your government, or some radical movement, refuse to allow anyone to control you! Do not be gullible enough to be manipulated by their underhanded methods, propaganda, lies, or slick mind games. Be strong and think for yourself.
If you think for yourself and do your own research, will you be labeled a rebel or a trouble maker? Often times, yes. But do it anyway! Think for yourself and be too strong and independent to be controlled; it is the only way to live free.
What you need to ask yourself is whether you want to live free, think for yourself, and be independent, or do you want to be a sheep and simply do what you are told and believe whatever you are told to believe. Sadly, many people in our world today have chosen the latter because it is the path of least resistance.
Warriors, on the other hand, choose to be free and to never be controlled or manipulated. They see through politicians’, governments’, the media’s, and others’ feeble attempts to control their mind and manipulate their thoughts and actions, and will have none of it. What will you choose to be – a warrior or a sheep? Warrior up, people!
Bohdi Sanders
author of BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior.
