Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- .This section is about rebellion. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- A real rebel doesn't only have problems with authority figures (like boss, teacher, parents, police). A real rebel has problems with everyone, including his or her lover, friends and strangers. And a real rebel also has trouble with himself, which expresses itself as self-destruction. And a real rebel also has trouble with nature, life or the world, which expresses itself as an existential rebelliousness (ala Albert Camus' The Rebel). Is this complete and extreme state of rebellion due to a gene, or a neurotransmitter, or birth order (ala Frank Sulloway's theory)? --- 8/26/2000
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Both. Acceptance vs. rejection. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Both. Give up, give in vs. struggle against. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Both. Leadership: conforming, rebelling. Followers: conforming, rebelling. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Both. Rebellion, conformity, and deviance. (1) Rebellion vs. obedient or compliant. (2) Non-conformist vs. conformist. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformists: why are you taking part in the bad of the system? Nonconformists: why are you not taking part in the good of the system? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformists. They made the rules of the game their unconscious religion. Even if it went against their grain (even worse!). --- 05/30/1993
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity and rebellion. (1)(A) Blindly following. (B) Following with understanding. (2)(A) Blindly rebelling. (B) Rebelling with understanding. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity and rebellion. One dynamic is that people conform out of fear of authority. People rebel because they are trying to prove (to self or to others) that they are brave. It is overcompensating for fear. It is denial of fear. It is the "I'm not afraid of anything" attitude. --- 10/12/2000
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity depends on an order or request made to the individual, how it is made, and the individual's philosophy, psychology and socialization. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity, definitions of (see politics, liberal and conservative). (1) Strong superego. Blindly obedient. (2) Fear of change. Fear of the new. Fear of progress. (3) Social follower. Wants to fit in and be popular. (4) No curiosity. They don't ask questions. They don't like to think (too much work). Would rather just follow orders. (5) Dislikes states of uncertainty and ambiguity. Likes set answers. Likes tradition and ritual. (6) Needs direction. Needs a routine. Needs structure. Can't develop it on own. --- 4/2/2000
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity. Complying in thought, word, and action. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity. How well they've been socialized or brainwashed into considering or believing narrow answers, and how strongly they hold it. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Conformity. Some will follow orders (1) Willingly. (2) If asked politely or begged. (3) If ordered or threatened. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Deviance, rebellion, and rebellious types. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Drugs and leisure, business, medicine, psychology, sociology. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Drugs. (1) Sellers: casual and dealer. (2) Users: causal and addict. (3) Whole different psychology situation and experience for each. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Failures oft become rebels. Successful rebels are rare and good. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- PART ONE. Rebelliousness is the desire to remain free at all costs. Rebellion is a control issue (or power issue). Rebels are control freaks (or power freaks). PART TWO. People tend to speak of rebels as having an authority problem. Actually it is not an authority problem but a control (power) problem. More exactly, an authority problem is a type of control (power) problem. PART THREE. S&M lifestyles often attract control (power) freaks. Many of the customers of professional dominatrixes are high powered executives who want to give up their power for an hour. My thesis is that S&M will also attract rebels because rebels are also control (power) freaks. Rebels fall for S&M. S&M attracts both control freaks as we typically envision them (executives) and rebellion types. PART FOUR. The above discussion paves the way for my new six-part typology of control (power) freaks. (1)(A) Control others. Coerce, manipulate, influence. (B) Control self. For example, anorexia and bulimia. (C) Control nature, life or the world. For example, neat freaks. (2)(A) Rebel against others and society. (B) Rebel against yourself. For example, self-destructiveness. Another example, those who can not direct themselves and who are aimless and directionless. (C) Rebel against nature, life or the world. For example, slobs. --- 8/24/2000
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Psychology and sociology of (1) Misfits: don't fit in. (2) Fu*k ups: screw up. (3) Malcontents: dissatisfied. (4) Misanthropes: hate people. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebel against enslavement, stupidity, injustice, and imperfection. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebelling against good vs. rebelling against bad. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion = change, for better or worse. Rebellion = freedom. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion = drive for power. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion against bad is good. Rebellion against good is bad. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion against good for better is good. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion against self or against our ideas held. Our reasons held vs. the real reasons. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion has an emotional component and a thought component. Thus, rebellion is an attitude. --- 5/15/2001
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion is a type of struggling. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion is natural and healthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion vs. self destruction. Frequency, degree, causes, effects. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion, types of. (1) Active: doing opposite vs. passive: not doing anything. (2) Overt vs. covert. (3) Against problem vs. transferred against something else. (4) Rebellion for rebellions sake. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. (1) How many personal and social rules do we as individuals set up and break, tells you how rebellious you are. (2) Rebellion and conformity as personality traits. (3) Types of rebellion. Violent and passive. (4) Predisposition to rebellion or conformity, depending on (A) Age: younger more rebellious. (B) Situation: those who are oppressed rebel more (or should). (C) Up bringing: the controlled conform but then freak out. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. (1) Non-conformity vs. conformity. (2) Rebellion as rule breaking. --- 10/10/1998
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. (1) Rebellion: to fight against, to actively oppose. (2) The rebel or contrary says "Things are not perfect, therefore I reject them". To rebel is to be idealistic. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. All is not lost as long as you can raise you middle finger. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Getting fed up, sick and tired. Getting bored, frustrated, dissatisfied. Is it an emotional pain problem? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. How to rebel in thought, in word, and in action. How hard, and how long to rebel? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. I loathe x, whether it is good for me or bad for me. I'm going to do y instead whether it is good for me or bad for me. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Possible casues of rebellion. Feeling naughty, feeling pissed off, self destruction. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Problems. (1) Not rebelling enough. (2) Rebelling too much. (3) Rebelling against wrong thing. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Resistance. (1) Passive vs. active. (2) Overt vs. covert. (3) Justified vs. unjustified. (4) Degree and type. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Symbolic rebellion against x, because of y. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Those who yearn to conform, yet rebel. Vs. those who yearn to rebel, yet conform. Somewhere on the road they pass by each other, and appearing to be the same, they see their mirror images, if only for a split second. --- 06/30/1993
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. Who is rebelling against what and why? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion. (1) Individual rules vs. society rules. How many follow, how close follow. How many rules break, how far break them. (2) Predisposition for rebellion: with age, with personality type. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Rebellion's price. (1) May not change society. Losses of going against society vs. gains from going against society (freedom and knowledge) vs. others profits from going with it (money, status, women) vs. others losses from going with society. (2) Was it worth it? How much did you choose it vs. were forced? What did you do right and wrong? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- The basis of thoughtful rebellion is thinking for yourself instead of believing everything you are told. --- 11/20/2001
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Those who feel part of the crowd, and want to stand out, vs. those who feel strange, and want to fit in. --- 01/07/1997
Psychology, personality, traits, rebellion. --- Trouble makers. Sadists, paranoids, loners, social bull shitters. --- 12/30/1992