2064:
Today, there are many
decision-making people acting irrationally, worsening the mess we’re in instead
of improving it. Vegans must address the rationally-intentioned, and have faith
in them that they’ll understand what has to be done; that they will come to
have faith in the effectiveness of en-masse boycott, to put an end to the
Animal Industries.
Vegans are proposing a
straightforward solution, but either non-vegans are unaware of it or they’re
continuing to ignore it. For us that is frustrating and yet we know people have
the intelligence to grasp the logic of our arguments.
But something is not
connecting. So, we wait. During which time, we hope to find out why – for some
it connects and for others it doesn’t. The problem might not lie only amongst
the uncaring non-vegans but amongst
vegans themselves.
There’s trouble in the ranks
down at the Vegan Detective Agency. Some want to look for clues to the crime,
others just want the culprits punished. Some of us never give up our appeal to
the average omnivore’s intelligence, others just get annoyed and judge them
negatively. I’d say this is the major divide at the Agency, between one type of
vegan and another, between those who issue ‘fatwas’ on people they don’t like
and others who want to educate them.
The first sort of vegan gets
angry – it makes them feel good to get it ‘off their chest’. They judge ‘the
animal eater’. It sounds good and strong. But by condemning them, directly or
by implication, we separate from them. We set ourselves ‘apart’. We feel
‘better-than’. We quarrel with people we’re close to. The gulf between vegans
and non-vegans grows very quickly; within seconds, we can separate from
someone, just by ‘making a stand’, just by getting a bit personal about it.
And then it’s an uphill slog,
trying to restore balance. Without mutual respect, we can’t impart information.
Their receptivity is something we, as vegans, need to nurture.
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