Status Updates From Disobey

"Tired of being an accountant and want to go to clown college? Fuck it. Be a clown."

"And often, often, often, the consequences are not what you think they will be. Those things you think will end your life are not going to end your life."

"Every day, we're asked not just to take responsibility for our own actions, but for those of everyone around us. Every day, we're asked to deal with problems we didn't consent to create. We're told to clean up messes we didn't make. We're told to toe the line in conditions we had no hand in."

"Someone, somewhere, gives an opinion and we're all expected to jump, to conform to that person's view of the world."

"They continue that for twelve years and then begin sitting still in a different room for another forty years, at which point they hope to retire and sit still in a chair in front of the TV until they die. Most people prioritize other people's demands and needs over their own and choose work over fun... Most people spend more time disliking what they're doing than they spend enjoying themselves."

"We live in a society that can't stop pollution or environmental destruction, that can't raise educational standards, can't stay healthy and non-obese, can't balance a budget, has no sense of fiscal responsibility, is in an economic tailspin, and is rife with crime and murder and violence. Most people in this "normal" society of ours begin sitting still in a room for six to eight hours beginning in childhood."

"As if the well-traveled path is the best path... Mindless conformity is what turns us from humans into sheep."

"Normal" is a consensus, nothing more.

"But it's wrong to assume that every guideline that rises out of a structured society is right for every person in it."

"I wanted a different kind of success. Freedom. Happiness. And yes, some money to make the way a bit more interesting. Different rewards, different game. Meaning I'd have to play by different rules–applying different stimuli in order to receive a different response."

"Conform to a rule, and good things don't happen so much as the system plods along, undisturbed. Break one, and you'll get a reaction."

"Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths."

"The 'obviously correct' judgment of the law starts to sound more and more like an opinion when a new variable is introduced, doesn't it?"

"People even continued to talk to me as if I weren't a complete failure, as if they didn't know or possibly–unthinkably–didn't care."

"Here's what you've gotta do to have a rocking life... but dude, I should warn you, it's fucking hard as a motherfucking FUCK!" But then I gave this dismissive wave and I was like, "World, bro, it's cool. I got this. I'm a hard worker. Consider it rocked."

"We're going to think about the people who did what they were told today, and about how every day from here on out, thanks to a defiant little decision we've made, we're going to have a hell of a lot more fun doing our own thing."