So far, but not far enough

Wednesday 27th Janusary

Back in the pit, a vegan missionary roams amongst the fast-asleep majority. We might want to recruit wherever we can. We talk to those who might want to escape but who don’t particularly want to be recruited to anything. We see their eyes glaze over and wonder if we’ve told them too much. Perhaps they simply want to improve their life in the pit. They don’t want to learn uncomfortable facts and won’t; to that end their free-will resists the missionary.
Some however do want to find out. They feel aroused, but on waking they see a dilemma – they’re attracted to the idea of self improvement yet they don’t want to be pushed around. They like to hear our views and maybe even feel inspired by some of what we say, but not to the whole of it. For instance, they may not be friendly to the idea of having ‘devas’ on their shoulders, not wanting to see things that way. For them imagination is confined to making the most of entertainment. The usefulness of ‘dreaming’ might not relate to their ‘real’, materially based world. For many people life is not full of possibilities but full of the fear of having less. Veganism doesn’t seem as attractive as the call of our friend the 1%’er, who calls for us to come out to play.