✌️Rebel Misfits Vs The Rat Race
A Manifesto For Creative Revolution
The Rebel Reinvention of “The Pop Art Nun”
In 1936, Frances Kent joined a convent in Los Angeles.
For twenty years, she dutifully followed the rules.
A Multi-Talented Misfit — teaching art, painting prayers across quiet walls.
But beneath the surface, a fire smouldered deep within:
Creativity. Hypersensitivity. A hunger for Justice.
The revolution of the sixties lit that fire inside her.
👉 Civil rights movement.
👉 Antiwar protests.
👉 The second wave of feminism.
Her faith and creative anarchy clashed inside her.
The Catholic Church grew angry at her increasingly rebellious art.
The Cardinal of Los Angeles accused her of disobedience, scandal and undermining Catholic values.
Frances responded by hijacking Pepsi’s “Come Alive” slogan —
ripping it from corporate hands and turning it into a spiritual call for creativity:
→ Wake up to life.
→ Wake up to injustice.
→ Wake up to love.
→ Wake up to your creative power.
It wasn’t about selling sugary drinks.
It was about becoming fully human—conscious, compassionate, creatively alive.
Her silkscreens exploded across the world.
The media dubbed her "The Pop Art Nun.”
It’s Never Too Late To Reinvent Yourself
In 1968, she broke the rules that raised her.
She left the convent.
She changed her name to Corita.
She reinvented herself as a professional artist
Corita was 50 years old!
No longer confined by the box she squeezed herself into, she rose —
a creative spiritual anarchist, fuelled by authenticity, courage and conviction.
Corita Kent didn’t just reflect the times.
She helped create them.
This is how reinvention begins within you:
Not outside.
Inside.
A spark.
A gut feeling.
An inner refusal to stay the same.
When rebellion wakes within us, our world cannot remain the same.
When we silence our creativity, we silence our truth.
As our creativity is who we truly are.
Are We Embarking on Another Creative Revolution?
🔥 The Creative Rebellion of the Sixties
The sixties weren’t just a political revolution.
They were a creative rebellion.
The protests, the art, the music, the style —
all driven by multi-talented misfits rejecting the status quo and building something new.
They didn’t just reject old ideas.
They created new ones.
Creativity was the rebellion.
It was how people said:
"You don’t own my mind.
You don’t own my body.
You don’t own my creativity.
You don’t own my future."
This was the birth of the counterculture:
Rock and roll smashed conformity in the music industry.
Underground publishing — zines, posters — spread rebellion faster than the media could censor it.
Fashion became protest — ripped jeans, tie-dye, afros, leather jackets, miniskirts — walking acts of defiance.
Creativity made the revolution visible.
Creativity made it contagious.
Without the music, the posters, the street theatre —
The sixties would’ve been another angry political movement.
Creativity became the culture.
It gave rebellion a universal language everyone could see, feel, wear, and sing.
🪦 The Death of the Rat Race
The sixties cracked the myth of freedom.
Today, we’re cracking the myth of finding purpose in the rat race.
We were told materialism would fill the voids within.
We were told that if we worked hard enough, we would find purpose and meaning.
Instead, The Rat Race sold us the illusion of control in a world full of uncertainty:
👉 Go to school. Get good grades.
👉 Go to college. Drown in lifelong student debt.
👉 Get a soul-sucking job you hate.
👉 Service the credit card debt.
👉 Buy expensive shit you don’t need.
👉 Impress people you don’t like.
We’re deep in late-stage capitalism.
The elite divide, distract, and drain us for profit — aided by a mainstream media machine they largely own.
They steal from the working and middle classes — and blame the immigrants.
And it’s working.
Across Western democracies, the far right is rising.
Authoritarianism is creeping back in — not with jackboots, but with press conferences, fake news, and viral slogans.
The old playbook is being rebooted.
Same fear. Same scapegoats. New tech.
The spark now is the same as it was in the sixties:
The expectation gap between the life we were sold and the reality we can’t unsee.
The Rat Race is a lie.
It always was.
And once you see it, you can’t go back.
🧠 From Collapse to Creation: Come Alive
The AI revolution is already here.
And it’s quietly strangling the traditional path —
The job ladder. The safety net. The rules.
But collapse creates clarity.
New opportunities always appear for those willing to see.
The rat race is dying.
Not with a bang — but with a slow, silent choke.
What comes next?
Not running faster in a burning maze —
But stepping out of it.
Multi-talented misfits weren’t built for the assembly line.
You were meant to outgrow it.
It’s about waking up.
Coming alive.
That’s what Corita Kent saw in the sixties.
That’s what she showed us when she tore “Come Alive!” from Pepsi’s hands and gave it real meaning:
✅ Wake up to your life.
✅ Wake up to your creative power.
✅ Wake up to sharing your ideas with the world.
Don’t become another dying regret statistic.
She knew then what we are learning now:
You cannot wait for permission to create.
You cannot wait for the world to tell you you're ready.
If the old systems are crumbling, let them.
The new world belongs to those who go from dreaming to doing.
The future belongs to those who “come alive!”
The Real Invitation
Stop conforming to others’ expectations.
Share your ideas with the world.
Be more weird.
Be more creative.
Be more alive.
What was true in the sixties is still true today:
✅ You own your mind.
✅ You own your body.
✅ You own your creativity.
✅ You own your future.
Come alive — and get your ideas out of your head and into the world.
" Your Life Is Now" John Mellencamp