Avoiding vegans

These days the lifting of awareness is fast, for those who choose to lift it. Fear holds others back, and that’s mostly down to misinformation.
Vegans need to dig out the worst lies and the best truths and mark them down. We need to lay them out, but without weighing down the table with too much information. First we need to work out which truths to emphasise. Today we’re greedy for knowledge, reacting perhaps to recent days of information-shortage, and now we have to sort the important from the less important, whilst at the same time juggling every argument that makes some so and other matters less-so.
At the moment many people (in almost all countries) are accessing new information and finding things out for themselves. Isn’t that wonderful? But “many” people? Are there many? Even today, there are too few who’re digging deep. The vast majority hasn’t grasped the situation (especially about the causes of animal farming, health and environmental melt-down). If it is grasped one might prefer to ‘sleep it out’.
The majority are still snoring upstairs, asleep and unaware, sleeping to take away the pain of knowing. By having to confront the latest information when awake we associate ‘being awake’ with an unpleasant need to turn a blind eye all the time. Sleep is a refuge from the daytime pain of having to be partial. Being partial is accepting some things but not others. Our society tells us what is important and what other important things are to be deemed NOT ‘important’.
Oh dear! How it’s all changed today. Now, in this information revolution we’re experiencing, we’re putting two and two together. So much has been withheld. So much taught wrongly. So much misinformation has been confirmed by people we’ve believed in, who were our staff of life, who are the authorities; now we’ve swung right across and perhaps too much is presently being undermined – again perhaps a reaction to another shortage from recent years, freedom to speak out.
Today we are able to attach importance to matters that were recently considered unimportant. Yes, of course, the animal thing springs to mind. But other matters too, concerning the environment, malnutrition and illiteracy, have recently blasted their way into our consciousness. Many people are still too stunned to act. They’re mainly stunned by the brazen way authorities have so callously misinformed us. And they’ve pulled this off by getting to know us, that we’ll believe any old nonsense when everyone else believes it. Everyone eats animals … so it must be true! Emperor’s clothes syndrome!
The new information (I say ‘new’ in the sense of unsullied), which we pick up from the Internet, might be disturbing. It may make people want to go back to sleep … because they see no future. (Even intelligent people I know, kind, good people, subscribe to this ridiculous ‘give-up-on-humanity’ mentality. They say they prefer to ‘sleep it out’ … the human race being “fucked”. Finding out new stuff only adds to the general frustration of living.
Omnivores, if they knew anything about ‘vegans’ might consider us to be part of The False Hope Brigade. They reckon meeting vegans depresses you. I’m painting omnivores here as ‘not very happy campers’. Omnivores want to keep smiling. They prefer NOT to create more depression for themselves - so they avoid meeting vegans. In some ways I can’t blame them. Vegans can be such a bunch of whingers sometimes. But don’t tell anyone I said so, okay?