Saturday, June 24, 2017

Force


2019:

Experimenting with the use of force is experimenting with advantage-taking. Once we take out the ‘force factor’ in what we do, what are we left with? Perhaps different habits. We free ourselves from the grip of violence-based habits.



As humans, we’re capable of wonderful things, not the least of which is our ability to ‘act on principle’ rather than from ‘me-first’. One such principle is non-violence. The most attractive aspect of non-violence is a provocateur spirit. This element of rebellion or provoking or questioning needs to use no violence other than gently taking the piss out of omnivores for being, well, omnivores. Vegans are at their most effective, I think, when they are being simultaneously passive and pro-active, just as they are when they boycott.



The boycott is a withdrawal from a world-that-need-not-be. Our pressure, as vegans, brings this world into focus, making compassion the new fashion. Omnivores believe it’s probably too hard to live happily being a boycotter of violence. But then that’s been planted in the collective mind, and is part of the ‘conspiracy of misinformation’ put out by the Animal Industries. 

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