What does the word “rebel” mean to you?
In my opinion, you can’t just put on the uniform of counter culture and claim the fruits of that labor. Despite my fondness for them, you can’t just “stick a skull and spikes on it” and turn “edgy”. Listening to loud music doesn’t make you “punk rock”. Rebellion is something in your heart, something in your actions, something in your words, something in your unwillingness to accept “what is” and trudge forward with your belief in what’s right, despite the odds against you. A rebel heart will create an instinctual suspicion of authority, because in your subconscious you know that authority draws its power from oppression. A rebel heart will give you the power of subversion. A rebel heart will give you the drive to make your own way, with your own thoughts and hands.
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Handmade is rebellion, because you know you don’t have to throw your money into the void of wealth outside of us, you can do it yourself, you can take a piece of what the authorities of the world believe is only theirs. Shopping small is rebellion, because instead of supporting a system, you are supporting people, people with rebel hearts, just like you.
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So yeah… I stick a skull on it. Not to be edgy, but to keep my rebel heart by my side as I face systems and structures and policies and directives in the work I do behind the scenes to help bring economic opportunity to others. I am not the authority on rebellion against authority. Just a rebel heart navigating my own way.
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