Enjoying money

Friday 18th December

It’s hard to enjoy hearing about the daily unreported massacre of animals. It’s very hard to take any comfort from our own responsibility for it. By pretending we’re NOT engaging in the act of hurting (hurting ourselves, hurting animals, hurting the planet, etc) we enter double-think and delusion. Our logical self tries to escape the inner eye by NOT seeing what’s going on. It’s laughable to think we can kid ourselves when we’ve already thought it through in our mind. As consumers we are party to a 1%’er’s reckless and juvenile projects for making money. We know they have to do it because they’re insecure and they have to find “safety” wherever they can. Because they consider “money” = “security” they are practically immune to the gentle heart approach to life. They expose and ridicule this very approach by calling it “bleeding” hearts of people who will get sloshy about something as insignificant as an animal. Reality is not a vegan life but a moneyed one.
Which brings us to money itself. Whether we are elite 1%’ers or amongst the 99% left over, we’d all jump at the chance to have plenty of money - to cushion our fear. It isn’t just the wicked who believe this. All over the world humans fear poverty and being forced to “live without”. So we try to get hold of as much of it (for security) as we can get – ‘high’ living - food, sex, intoxicants, anything to relieve the fear of insecurity and the tedium of living as a poor person. With money we can spend indulgently, to make life safe and in the everlasting search for enjoyment. Get rich, get smashed, get “out-of-it”, get fed, get bedded - enjoy.