Human Nature Rebels

Human Nature Rebels

Rebellions often occur because a person, or people, becomes restricted from their necessities. Naturally, humans want what they cannot have, and go against rules they dislike. It is human nature to go after what is wanted, even if it is not what people were intended to do, whether it is allowed or not. Communities often rebel to fulfill their needs if they were previously denied them. Human nature will allow oppression to prevent them from doing any one thing. Any man being controlled will want to rise above their restrictions and prevail.

Oppression, of diverse forms, is one of the greatest obstacles to human prosperity. Oppression deprives human beings of knowledge regarding material reality, dehumanizes its victims as well as its perpetrators by robbing them of dignity, divides and alienates humanity against itself in ways that hinder human progress, and makes the regulation of human affairs impossible. A man or woman being oppressed overcomes their restrictions in different ways such as violence or destruction, often resulting in new forms of oppression. One can overcome oppression by the means of dividing and conquering. To divide and conquer means to find potential allies for the oppressed to be found among the oppressors. When a person uses this technique, they multiply their allies until the oppressors' power becomes reduced to none.

Knowing the restrictions Frederick Douglass, a southern slave, faced, he still learned to read. Douglass was denied rights that the average person attained, but desperately requested to read, so he found children, around the town he lived in, to educate him in the ways of language and literature. Douglass was oppressed and prohibited from being taught to read. Being a white folk and teaching a black slave to read and write was against the law. Becoming an educated slave would prove that a person is equal to any white man, with literacy comes opportunity. Any other man or woman, colored or white, being barred from their true potential would overcome what society restricts them from doing. Education is power and with power you can revolt against the oppression that has been restricting you. Human nature consists of many things, one being education. Nothing can change human nature, not even education although many people labor under this delusion. Parents expect education to make a dull child bright, but children can only be trained similar to their inherent capabilities, they cannot depart from nature's pattern.

People often rebel against a person or idea because they do not live by the same ideals. Citizens, who would rather not be controlled and forced out of their comfort zone, feel the need to respond to something that was denied to them. Education is one way to go against restrictions placed upon them. This ability would give someone the knowledge to revolt against those causing the oppression. Frederick Douglass