Our main fears

Being vegan doesn’t protect us from everything - we can have the same fears as anybody and suffer just as much as others do, but it’s significant that we probably suffer from different things. Vegans perhaps fear and suffer from being isolated within their community, because of their unfamiliar beliefs. 99%’ers fear guilt and ill health and may have cause to fear both. 1%’ers, materialists, feel most insecure because they’ve abandoned their sense of guilt and used their money to pay for hospitals when they inevitably get ill as a result of their rich lifestyle. Their main fears is the withdrawal of the ‘retail’ dollar - they accumulate money to protect them from such an eventuality and acquire property to make them feel safer. As representatives of the ‘straight’ world they fear rebellion, not by violent insurrection but by customers becoming better informed and taking their dollars elsewhere. These are dangerous times for 1%’ers. They’re at odds with Nature for a start and with their customers too, owing to their record of misinformation. They’ve grown fat on lies and now, out of the blue, their whole way of life is jeopardised by public access to real information. 1%’ers, who invented misinformation, are now seeing their world beginning to wash away, and that’s down to the Internet where useful information is making its impact.
As 99%’ers learn more from reliable information, they gain more control of their lives. If they can rely on friendships and networking to avoid personal isolation, then material insecurity can be largely played down. In the place of material security we can develop a greater faith in Nature, in the sense that any of us can come closer to the model Nature intended for us. It reminds us of our need to survive (safely) but it might also feel like being-at-home IN Nature. And that mightn’t mean going native or living in a forest, but simply being more streetwise and less vulnerable to the 1%’er influence. Our closeness to animals, even the most domesticated one, lets us experience to some extent how it is IN Nature. Without the trappings of rich living life is uncushioned and we naturally develop survival skills. Perhaps by living in a more Nature-oriented world we are, like the wilder beings, living off our own wits. Life regularly testing our metal. In that way we can explore our own individuality as we liberate ourselves, as we help liberate the whole of our human species. A transformed species would have far fewer self-imposed limitations. The sky would be the limit.