Create Rebellion: an in-depth review

“Create Rebellion” by Robbie Tripp Chapter 6 Review pages 39-45 As I embark upon reviewing the last chapter of this deluxe pamphlet, it occurred to me that I would love to see a real literary review by a professional editor, agent, or a licensed psychiatrist. Robbie spends the last full five double-spaced pages blathering aggressively on about dreams as he is wont to do. He likens reaching for your dreams as an “assault you are waging on the world”. Robbie thinks over the top phrases leave a bold impression on the reader. They don’t. They leave this reader wondering why he is so obsessed with violent imagery. I was going to quote some passages but there were too many. Have a look at page 40  here  and sample the absurdity. Robbie writes furiously about the drive to create being so strong that true creators would “rather die” than be unable to express themselves. I must not be a true creator then, despite my Etsy sales to the contrary, because I would pose self-preserv...

Chapter 5 (pages 33-38) declares that fear is a “nefarious nemesis” and a “crippling, unpleasant monster”. It states that fear has created countless “martyrs amongst humanity” and is a “black tar”. Robbie says in this chapter that you can identify people (“everyday beings”) who have been stunted by fear. He recommends that you study those people and ask yourself if that’s what you want for yourself. To combat fear, he states, you must have confidence. Either that or you must confront it and “hypnotize it into a docile motivator that swells dormant in the basement, chained and harnessed to the floorboards”. Lots of mystical imagery in this chapter including “wondrous wake”, “noxious notions”, “furtive feelings”, “permafrost of your persistence”, “rose colored enchantments”. It’s not worth putting these phrases in context because that doesn’t help understanding them. He suggests that one must constantly be aware of fear’s “wailing whispers”. He says you must always be on the sea...

Chapter 4 is the chapter that Robbie really lays into the haters. His usage of metaphors is at an all-time high in this chapter. He may have had the Book of Revelation open when he was writing this. He begins by claiming that throughout your “creative journey” you will encounter “snarling beasts of envy “ who want to oppress, battle and belittle you. I have been making and selling my art (first mixed media collage and in the last few years hand embroidery) for the last ten years. Maybe I’m doing something wrong but I have never found this to be true. Robbie states that the people that want to bring you down are sometimes people you know. He’s vague but he suggests that these could be friends and family. Regardless, he says you must excise them from your life. Robbie refers to people that don’t support your journey a “filthy demographic” of “purposeless people”. He says one must act quickly to get rid of them or YOU could become a “diseased member of their epidemic of compla...

Chapter 1 Review Chapter 2 Review Chapter 3 Pages 19-24 Chapter 3 begins with this utter nonsense: “The common man’s sickening philosophies will always linger in the air around you like a foul stench, seeking to discourage you from continuing your mission. Heed them not.” It would be nice if Robbie could provide an example of “sickening philosophies” of the “common man”.  But since this is an ABSTRACT MANIFESTO, not the ramblings of a delusional narcissist, the reader once again has to try to decipher it. I tried. No luck. One thing I did glean from this sentence is that this is another example of Robbie thinking he’s special. And because he thinks he’s special, that makes him better than the average, or “common” person. He states “their common sense rules of their uninspired world are...a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.” At this point, and I’m not even off the first page of chapter 3, I’m so irritated that I whipped it across the room. I ...

Chapter 1 Review Chapter 2 Review Page 12-18 Like nearly every passage in this book, chapter 2 starts out with a melodramatic bang: “Blitzkrieg the cowardly corporations with your open awareness of their misdeeds.” A sentence like this is too insane to blow past but I have more questions than anything. Unnecessary definition of blitzkrieg: “an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory”. What is a “cowardly corporation”? What is the difference between “open awareness” and “awareness”? (Aside from a minimum word count.) What “misdeeds” is he referring to? Corporations, like people, can commit any number of “misdeeds”. Finally, how does the reader identify the misdeeds of the cowardly corporations? The author doesn’t say. So why would the reader go about “blitzkrieging” the aforementioned cowardly corporations if we don’t know what they did in the first place? Even if we knew what their misdeeds were, would a BLITZKRIEG be appropriate? Seems agg...

Robbie describes his book on the cover as “An abstract manifesto for disruptive creativity”. Translation: I am a brilliant guru whose word vomit will change your life and I will not be confined to pedestrian ideas such as paragraphs. I have mined the shit out of thesaurus.com. Adjectives are my bitches. You’re welcome.” I purchased my  copy  from a used book seller on eBay for $5. I was pleased to contribute to the economy but not directly to Robbie’s horrendous sneaker collection. It’s not only  flimsy  for a book but it’s only 5x7 in size. I knew it was under 100 pages, but it actually has 45 double-spaced, 14-point font  pages  plus a full-page black-and-white (moody serious) author picture, an afterword and 4 1/2 blank pages (???) at the end. (Maybe Izzard Ink Publishing has a page minimum, idk.) My  copy  has what looks like burn marks across it. It occurred to me that someone somewhere was going to use it in a ritual. Or was angry a...