There's truly nothing so terrifying as sharing your most vulnerable self, and for those of us who have had traumatic and abusive experiences speaking up can also be the biggest reason people walk and sometimes run away.

But do it anyway.

I know... abandonment issues... they clench your bowels and freeze your stomach, digestive enzymes suddenly halted like a Jackson Pollock hanging on some billionaire's wall.

But still... speak up, tell your story anyway.

Even if no one wants to hear it.  Trust me... it matters far more than you know.

Being a rebel in 2025 isn't putting 'Pirate' in your bio and then boasting about your latest vacation extravaganza.

Being a rebel today means showing up authentically, even when people you look up to turn tail and run as fast as they can away from you.

So what if your story is sad, maybe even scary.  So what if it makes you the difficult one to talk to.

It's your goddamn story, and it deserves to be told, and even more importantly - someone out there desperately needs to hear it.

Sure... only one in ten thousand or so will think your words are important, sure you will only get 20 views on that video, but because it hit that one person at that exact moment they needed to know they aren't alone, that it's okay if folks run from their stories too... because there's someone else out there with the same kind of fucked up background as them, they will see you as a savior in that moment, because you helped validate their own fucked up life.

As for the other 9,999 out of 10,000 who didn't think your story mattered at the time... what you said, what you told them about your suffering, your abuse, your long walk off a short plank out in the middle of the ocean in the dead of night when no one else was looking, will stick with them, and at some random moment, possibly even years later, they will remember something you said, or a look in your eye, or how you made them feel, and once again... your story will heal some long damaged part in someone else.

In fact, telling your authentic story is today's superpower.  While most people are eating ozempic and applying 3 lbs of makeup, the folks who get raw, who get real, who stop trying to control the message and instead focus on sharing truth will be the lasting heroes of this age.

It's a trap!

For the narcissists who have run our world into the mud, who have toppled our high towers, who have swollen our bellies with bloated worms instead of nutrients... it's a trap. For those who live behind false fronts and a mound of lies, it's a trap.

You see... there's little in life that truly defines a person, yet nothing defines us more than how we treat those we can help.

So, do good when and where you can.  That's how we evolve into the people we want to be.

That's being a rebel in 2025.

Namaste
The Storyteller

Who sets the term 'laborer' in relation to 'worth'?  Jeff Bezos?  If you work as an Amazon driver he does.  The man who has been skimming the bulk of your VALUE has been setting an ARBITRARY NUMBER UPON YOUR EXISTENCE, making you a slave to your wages, because he can.

How do I know?  Because I've spent my life working in the public sector as an accounting and HR manager, watching who does what, who gets what, and why.

Which has led me to the conclusion that we are all the fodder for gluttonous cows, like Mr. Bezos, so long as we continue to let him and his ilk determine the definition of our VALUE.   I mean... when you think about it... It seems INSANE to let anyone else determine our worth.  Especially the folks who can turn around and make BILLIONS off of it.  (There's truly got to be a more fair, economically self-sustaining way!)

Because, from my perspective, as someone who has run payroll for a couple greedy multi-million dollar companies, if a driver moves $1,000,000,000 in goods in a year, but only receives $60,000 a year for the value of THAT labor... THE BULK OF THEIR VALUE IS BEING TRANSFERRED TO A MAN WHO DID NOT EARN IT.

I'm sorry I'm shouting.  The Amazon truck was just here.  And I couldn't hear myself over my own guilt and shame.

So... yeah... I am guilty of participating in Jeff's ongoing theft... My penance, therefore, is to explain how we can (all together) transform Jeff's greed into something that can build healthy worldwide communities, diverse and mutually beneficial worldwide communities, for generations to come.

And I'll get to that, and so much more, here, as I attempt to explain a different (non-greedy payroll person's) perspective, on things like 'FREE ECONOMY' and 'FAIR MARKET'.

Here is also where I share my definitions of socially archetypal words, such as 'evil', 'good', 'bad', 'justice', and 'accountability', that a global economy must posses if we are ever to develop the safety required for human evolution, in the hopes that we can all suggest then settle upon ones which suit our collective needs the most.

Making money across the ocean doesn't take a middle-man, but rather a shared language and value system.

Cut out the middle man - cut out the bloat - put value back into communities where the product is from.

Here too, I might even, on occasion that is, suggest that by removing socially deranged and ethically crippled billionaire parasites from positions of criminally abused power (through legal means of course), and by interjecting social responsibility into the corpse-like-bloat of our current mega-corp realm (think monopolies) we could effortlessly level the burden they have been shoving off onto those with the least resources for centuries.

I might even imagine a world for us all, where predatory narcissists don't get special advantages in most work settings, or where sadistic banking practices have been replaced by those which aid and benefit everyone, such as a symbiotic forest full of centuries of old growth would do.  (I'll even take on Darwin here, in a much-needed course-correcting of the decades old practice of teaching 'preferred stories' instead of thinking.)

Rebel Yell is NOT about fighting anything or anyone.  It's about taking the spot where you are now and expanding it bit by bit, until the whole world falls in, until suddenly... you realize why the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, and just how powerful the peace of that is - after all, this mathematically perfect reality we all exist in does have a point and purpose to it all.  (If you're suddenly confused by the direction shift please refer to the "Law of One" tab.  It explains my perspective on our shared core reality.  Trust me... it's scientific and relatable.  Give it a shot.)

For me... paradise is not a place to go.  It's a way to live.  Within the heart. 

With a direct connection to All There Is/ Source / The One / Infinite Intelligence or whatever you call God.

We can't fight our way to peace.  It is only through peace talks that war truly ends.

Therefore, speak!  Speak what you know, where you can, with all  your heart, in the hopes that peace will come, and humanity will finally grow.


Namaste

Raena Exe
The Storyteller