"The Rebellious Slave" is a collection of independent entries taken from my notebook—those I made while on the journey to discover the self and the worlds around me. Together, they present a different way of viewing the world, popular ideas, and an individual’s place amid them. My hope is that the alternative perspective I present will motivate others to reevaluate why they want what they want, why they know what they know, and why they believe what they believe. I wish to inspire because the manner in which a person’s mind is trained, and the substance readily available to the mind, cages an individual to an untrue reality.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Disillusioned Escape from Nimh Daydreamer The New Age Feudal System Artificial Suffering Mind Tricks In the Wind I Blow an Innocent Kiss I Challenge Our First Mother Citizen of the Natural World: Worldian Manufactured A Top-Down Problem To Be Rich Fancy Eggs Bred this Way Master or Servant The Machine and Me Built like This Ground Zero Skipping Rocks False Living Individuality Starry-Eyed Natural Selections Like an Island Circumstances A Curse or a Blessing? Happiness Under Attack is the Happy Me To Mimic Me An Unbiased Mind Raindrops Trolls of Suffering and Pain Born Pure Stick and Stone The Army of the Social Activist The Good Citizen The New World: A Flower in February How to Change the World Age of the Aquarian Why Him? The New Romans We Be Adam Smith’s Side-Effect Caged Trouble Your Unique Life Purpose Stardust in my Shoes The Same Caste Immortal Me Lagoon The Invisible Leeching-Effect Salt Fragrance and Thorns Kismet and Me South Paw The Changing of Guard