'That' type of energy

Our society admires those who get ahead, but that includes those who squeeze the land, the animals or anything that seems free for the taking.
Kind and loving to their family they may be, but when it comes to their money, or rather to their source of income they can be ruthless. These are the advantage-takers. These are the people who are prepared to numb their feelings if it means enslaving animals to make their income. And that’s a whole attitude which contradicts everything the idealist stands for. The idsealist would rather forgo the chance to make money than get mixed up with anyone in the business of advantage-taking, especially on the scale animal farmers operate. The pastoralist or the factory farmer is usually cheered on by society, which means the idealist is left out in the cold.
Idealists get little encouragement. They’re often called ‘bleeding hearts’. Idealism isn’t easy but there is one advantage. They have a grand goal, an ambition for the greater good, and a principle that pays back in terms of energy, a special kind of energy. By acting as guardians to children, animals, forests, the marginalised, etc., there’s meaning, and when that is combined with harmlessness a special type of energy is tapped into.
Many people aren’t aware of this energy because idealism doesn’t exist in their lives. Perhaps they don’t miss what they’ve never had, and so they miss the point of why the idealist works so hard for what seems like so little reward. But idealism and the wish for better things to come, is to have access to a self-perpetuating energy. It works on the basis that you put it in and you get it out - the more of it you get the more you want to put in. It isn’t really anything to do with making money or the superficial energy that comes from money making.