Un-oafing ourselves

It would help activists if they could at least consider the need to work hard for other generations. It makes it feel all uphill. It doesn’t yet look promising, that people are going to turn en masse towards vegan principle, so the slowness may require a shift of perception. Vegans: transmigration of souls, other lifetimes, reincarnation, all that sort of thinking certainly gives me a sense of optimism, not that the world will be repaired but that over the lifetimes I have lived and will live, along with vast numbers of fellow transmigrators, we may need to feel the essence of that before we really get to work on repair.
We may see our ‘lives’ as considerably longer than ‘three score and ten’. We might have only ever considered our life stretching into lifetimes. This, whether it’s true or not, does allow us to at least see through the ‘dream of personal success’. It allows us to dive into the warm waters of altruism with a nice mix of both selfish and unselfish motivation. Wherever we’re at on this spectrum, advanced and self developed or untouched completely, any stage that we are at relates to two sides, one of which is always the inner oaf. We’ve all behaved badly and still continue to do. Unless we consciously move away from bad behaviour and encourage others to do so too, nothing will happen. But as soon as the ball starts to roll, as we’ve seen with some environmental matters involving most of us in new habits, it can grow exponentially ... whoich may happen a little later than we hope. It’s as if most of us aren’t yet near the starting line. We’ve already come out of our burrows and noticed the mess humans have caused. As we are rubbing the sleep out of our eyes, perhaps a determination forms to move away from the old attitudes. Instead of feeling entitled to do whatever we feel like doing we start to move towards a feeling that we none of us have an entitlement to be destructive. If we are destructive then is that simply because we can’t see any other way to achieve our aims?
Imagination and courage are the watch words of the future age. To survive, we need to be unaffected by competition. If we’re locked into the old ways we’ll simply be up against competition and a never ending struggle to outdo other advantage-takers.