Hammering in the nails

The big worry today isn’t about being in the pit, it’s whether we’re conscious of it. Like sex starved teenagers who’re losing their virginity, we adults lose our acuity. By forfeiting fine minds (bursting with full consciousness) we settle for any old ‘pleasure experience’ we can lay our hands on. Instead of opening doors of consciousness we close them. Maybe not voluntarily but nonetheless we justify our closing them with that cheap cut: “Everybody does it so why shouldn’t I”?
By our being so easily seduced by safety in numbers we’re able to get over our guilt simply by going with the crowd. Even if we suspect we’re swimming against the tide of the coming age, we’re still in step with the march of the day.
If we’re not so easily seduced we may have jumped ahead already and be changing fast. If we also work it all out for ourselves, logically, then we’re also moving towards veganism and our own disassociation with the crowd mentality. Understandably any such ‘unauthorised change’ is a threat to the 1%’ers, who’re aware the world is approaching a more expansive age. Do you think they ever get horrified when they realise the coming age may be “vegan”, may eschew gratuitous violence and overall be a more aware, more intelligent age. Not good for arms shares and not good for animal industry profits.
Today, this “expansive awareness” still seems a million miles away. We’re still poisoning ourselves with the corpses of animals, still at war and still carrying the weight of huge bodies, huge egos, double standards and hubris. Vegan food doesn’t eradicate this entirely, but it helps to dissolve the ‘lump’ of it. It breaks open the belief that we eat meat for strength or that we can kill fear by being semi-conscious all day. By being vegan we can at least be alert. We can even wake the rebel in us. Trouble is constantly being silenced.
The rebel stands up to the 1%’ers by asking tricky questions in public. If we let that rebel in us stay sleep we’ll be allowing these frightening (and truly frightened) people to carry on controlling our world. If we aren’t sapping their strength by boycotting their commodities (mainly animal food and clothing) then we’re only boosting their spirits. When we open our purse or wallet to them, we also open our hearts to them (rather as we do in worship). We do it in the name of non-awareness - by pretending we aren’t aware. We tip them the wink and turn a blind eye to our own involvement. We let our dollars ‘hammer in the nails’.