Please, no dry philosophy

I was told years ago that in Australia one never mentions the “ph” word. It puts people off. But damn it, philosophy it what it is, take it or leave it. ‘Vegan principle’ is a philosophy for life. It can be summed up in the simple soundbite “no-using-animals”, and from there it’s an endless voyage of discovery. It’s both calming and electrifying, it’s daunting yet full of promise for a better life - that’s what we’re promoting, as a philosophy. And we can lull people towards its acceptance. One taste of what’s on offer and we’ll get them driving over to our place. Our café is always open.
The more omnivores think things through, in their own good time, the more convinced they’ll be at their own conclusions – as they ‘think’, so their thinking machine starts to function better, it improves with use until the rickety process is in good enough shape to take a longer journey.
The journey towards becoming vegan is something to look forward to. In this case it’s a matter of opening up to new ideas: thinking as we might have thought when much younger, adventurously.
What vegans and animal advocates are explaining to people, logically, rationally and calmly, is what omnivores may secretly be wanting to know anyway. It’s like kids doing what’s suggested, taking it in constructively (instruction, advice, suggestion) - wanting form and structure rather than chaos. There’s surely nothing more destructive and chaotic than eating the secretions or body parts of executed animals. The purpose of philosophy is to bring order to chaos.
As vegans we need to explain our message, but we also need to create magic – make myths disappear and new ideas become tantalizing.
Once we’ve performed we can go home, the seed having been sown. Hopefully we’ve left them with something they can ccontemplate later.
No one is ever dragged to see a conjurer. We go voluntarily. Omnivores will come across when they’re ready. Sure, we can chivvy them up a bit from the sidelines, we can spruik a bit too, but then it’s up to them. We’ve handed out sample packs - if they want any more we can let them ask for it.
When we drive over to their place everything depends on whether or not their car space is available for us to park in. We have a long way to travel and they have a long way to go to listen. It all depends whether or not they can afford to take in what we have to say. Are they up to appreciating our magic show. Ideally, we have to be ready with some magic when they are ready to open to the subject.