It seems that a lot of people associate the 1960's with nothing but rebellion, but to me, ths seems inaccurate. To me, rebellion is the mindset of "Authority said it. Regardless of if it is right or wrong, I am rebelling against it!" Whereas dissent seems to be "Authority said it, and it was wrong. Let's fix it!" Dissent seems to be moreso seeking the truth and doing what one beleives is right, rather than just mindlessly rebelling against authority. Anyway, I just thought I would share it with you and see if anyone else had any insight on the subject...
Dissent is Patriotic 'tis a bumperstick a friend of mine has and it's completely true how else did we become a nation? exactly then let us all disagree or your taking away our true american way =)
Exactly! I have heard that before too, the slogan I mean... But you are right! If we weren''t dissentful, we would still be living in the corrupted 1950's!
Hmm, didn't even think that far back, awesome point! But even further back, the reason people left Europe was because of religious freedom, and were dissented about haveing none. So we wouldn't have even started the colonies!
well i was just stating that that is why "dissent is patriotic" patriotic in the sense of american pride or glory patriotic, also, in the positive sense that we are founded upon the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness dissent is patriotic it's one of our foudations therefore, the right to protest or petition is very important disagreement is what started this country we have the right to disagree rebellion seems to have a negative connotation sort of like a disruption in society ... i think i spaced out... sorry
Also a good point... I also highly agree with you that rebellion does have a negative connotation... Dissent is viewed as less negative... But then again, I veiw rebellion as just senseless, anti-authority attitude, without knowing WHY the authority is bad! I am not really an anarchist so I don't beleive that ALL authority is bad (I deffinately didn't mean that anarchist are in what I view as rebellious! I think that most anarchists are dissentful, and have their own valid reasons), just about 99% of it... But I am not rebelling, I am just dissentful. Murder is illegal (with the exception of murdering people during war and other forms of legalized murder), I agree, it should be. I am not going to be rebellious and murder someone just because the government said not to... I know, that is an extreme, but I think it puts my point across...
Rebellion is what you call dissent generally, why would people rebel if they thought authority was doing right? You just seem to want to live in your own little utopian commune but taht aint happenin' bro.
hmm there's two words you don't see put together very often or for that matter there's two words that shouldn't go together at all IMO which is completely off topic, but still
A lot of people get it into their heads that rebelling for the sake of rebelling is cool... I am not sure why, but no one in their right minds would think that shoplifting is right... I mean, you are stealing something (I am not talking about taking food because you and your family are starving or anything, just someone sees something, wants it, and shoplifts it). That would be a form of rebelling. Knowing that something says something is wrong, so you do the opposite, not because you think it is right, just because you want to do it. Most of the time the only problem people who are rebellious see with whatever it is they are rebelling against is that they are telling them to do something that they don't want to do... And often times not even that... I don't understand the second part of what you said about the commune and all that (although I do want to try communal living, it seems like it would be pretty awesome!), but I take it that it was supposed to be an insult or a shot, so I hope you find whatever it is that has made you so ressentful and solve the problem, then you can be a much happier person.
