Conforming

1%’ers, with their brains focused on self interest, are safe in the knowledge of ‘probabilities’. They know customers. They know they can be relied upon to not want to know what’s going on. They know most 99%’ers are happy to stay in the pit and accept their state of captivity. It stems from being born in captivity and therefore learning how to be not-free.
When restrictions were first put on us - to protect us - as kids, as we grew older we came face to face with authority, with models of what “normal” behaviour and beliefs were. We found out how they help us to conform. They bind us into the collective mind. Habits form in keeping with others’ habits. And the most damaging habit in amongst a whole range of other destructive habits, is our choice of foods. They aren’t “vegan” foods!

If we are free enough to choose our own values and if we choose solely plant based foods, we create a massive rift between ourselves and almost everyone else around us. To inexperienced young people, the implications of this may not be obvious at first.
But once beyond parental care and control, once independent, then personal/individual decisions can be made about what food to eat and what enterprises to support (or withdraw support from). Withdrawing support is our only way of showing the extent to which we disapprove. We hope that disapproval will, like a cloudy day, break out into sunshine and positive ideas for life improvement. But at first the boycott is everything, disapproving of the 1%’ers and their exploitation, their use of slavery and their meat products. If young adults question everything, reassess things and eventually get as far as veganism, they’ll see two liberation flags flying, one for us and one for the animals.