Saturday, January 9, 2010

Emasculating vegans

For people like vegans, isolation is society’s intended punishment for us. Our fellow beings will not tolerate people who, simply because they eat special food think they are better than anyone else. Whether that is fair or not the ‘avoidance’ we experience can make us feel insecure or depressed. It doesn’t help if we get angry about it, or frustrated, or slip into self pity. That eventually affects self confidence.
The brainwashing of the general public relies on envy of others’ freedom, and since ‘freedom’ is associated with ‘wealth’ we’re trained to believe that we could do almost anything we wanted … “if only we had money”. The 1%’ers’ lifestyle is portrayed as something to strive for. They don’t need to be liked by us to secretly admire them or envy them. It’s the private goal for many people to emulate the 1%’er’s big houses, large bank account, educational opportunities or plentiful sex. Their ‘plenty’ contrasts with our lack of it, and we’re lured by it. But our wanting ‘it’ means we must be prepared, if necessary, to be cold hard bastards, which in turn means closing down our present self examinations. Getting rich fills us with enthusiasm for material progress and consequently sucks the enthusiasm out of us for getting to know who we are, as individuals.

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