Solo exploring

Each of us may feel highly inspired, and perhaps we think we don’t care if no one else understands us, but in the end we will have to care enough to condense everything we believe into one single thread from which all our ideas will spring: veganism, animal rights, non-aggression, health and happiness, each one stemming from the idea of working with Nature rather than against it. The human race has been struggling to dominate Nature for a long time, and this is the cause of so many of our most serious problems. We need to find a way of going back to a more natural lifestyle. We don’t have to revert to primitive living, but just find a way to use our present sophisticated human systems and base them on vegan principles of harmlessness. Working out how to do things this way is likely to be what future discovery is all about, and the more we discover the more we will want to communicate it to others.
To do that requires a morale strong enough to overcome the odds against us. As people have found out (who’ve pursued non-violent methods, including those who’ve become vegan) there isn’t much support from family or friends or the general public or even vegan colleagues. So much of it has to be worked out on our own, and kept together without much outside help. Those of us who’ve decided to devote our time and energy to promoting animal rights have taken on this sort of challenge … perhaps with a will. There are still very few pro-active vegans in number and they are widely dispersed. Rather like foreign ambassadors, feeling very alone, unsupported, vulnerable and at times depressed by this surprising lack of support. And yet what we’ve been inspired by is of such importance that, come what may, it’s essential to maintain momentum. Animal Rights is no contemplative order. It isn’t based on prayer or wishful thinking but on the active search for solutions and a search for break throughs of attitude. It isn’t only about doing one’s duty to help animals or trying to convert people but about making the hard work we’ve taken on enjoyable; deriving pleasure and satisfaction from everything we do. And from that our solo explorations can take on a momentum of their own.