Escaping the ‘pit’

Our society is full of dead animals and from the ease with which we kill them and eat them comes the violence and selfishness of our species. It’s the pit that we’re all born into and kept in. To escape it means leaving behind the very people who make our lives liveable.
This is no simple pit with Nirvanah on the outside of it. Escaping the pit may take us from the frying pan to the fire. It may bring us to the ‘fringes’, which can be even worse.
The pit is a mindset fixed in one reality and, to a vegan, it’s a reality we reject. If we’re sure our own motives are inspired by the greater good then the two stages of action must surely be to get out of the pit and to influence enough others to do the same in order to eventually bring about the end to ‘pit’ conditions. It’s the old story of a people being oppressed and fighting back, only this oppression is a mind game that is basically a vilification of compassion and particularly vegan principle. ‘They’ are on one side of a barrier, we’re on the other simply because we’re defending our right to protect animals from attack.
Today, in a way, it is already happening, the fight back. An escape team is forming. The most effective team will succeed in helping humans to escape whilst freeing the animals. At the back of our most optimistic mind all of us see how it might just work. If those in the team are genuine then things are really looking up.
But the motive to form a team in the first place, where is that coming from? I’ve suggested it’s our need for company along with a desperate need to escape pit conditions, etc. But I’d also say it’s our need to be amongst people who’re enthusiasts for ‘the greater good’. Our ‘main motive’ … yes, we could want to recruit others to expand our subgroup, to feel safety in numbers, but most of all it’s for combining minds to launch an escape. Whatever our motives, it’s the getting of support in our escape that’s important as long as it’s a double action –simultaneously liberating the animals and personally escaping ‘the pit’.
By bringing ‘escape’ to the forefront of peoples’ minds we deliver a wake-up call. It’s rather like in the olden days, the clarion call to take up arms, and now the arms are invisible and non-violent. Our greatest call on people is to join with us in slicing into animal industry profits. By means of boycotting everything that is tainted with ‘pit-think’ we dismantle the concept of imprisonment. We end ‘today-think’, where we have in custody over a billion animals, locked behind steel, awaiting execution. That’s the pit!