Rebel without a Cause

The little child becomes ready to rebel against his world the moment he is exposed to another. It’s an encouraging motive to know that if I fail this predicted recurrence of my life, that all of my ancesters lived alike, there is an alternative one out there. For the first time in humanity we now know how everybody lives on the planet! we have access to different moralities and alternative virtues. And thus we rebel everytime we are triggered by our own elements. The notion 'i know better and i could do better' is the engine that encourages this shift. This dilemma has grave consequences to our societies and local principles and customs.

I have grown up in a constantly changing world. In the making worldwide, was a world of rich and open culture that was both Anglophonic and liberal in culture. But it was made appealing and inviting that I capitulated entirely and became a 'global cosmopolitan citizen'. This was I suppose in exchange for my possible adherence to my local society; that is being eroded at the rate of our negligence and departing. It is uncertain to know for sure which ways I would have been better off individually; but certainly the fabric of locality and society is not a winner in this formula.

It is genius to drive and seduce the individual out of his own comfort and into an appealing unknown. One is dumbfounded by the tremendous system put forth to this effect. it is surely and effectively homogenizing the world. In one century we have witnessed more rebellions than we have had in the previous five that have always served this purpose. Is this global trend part of a global conspiracy to weld the nations at the expense of their own heritages and customs? In every aspect of life, we witness rebels of every kind; e.g. rebels in the family, in the workplace, at school…etc. Rebelling in essence is not necessarily a bad thing, unless it is rebellion against our own norms and realities. More than ever nowadays our children are equipped with alternatives to what we say and believe, and more than ever now we don’t matter to them.

Saeed