Me

Friday 6th August 2010

We know there are destructive forces about the place, especially the humans with the big brains. Their destructiveness is the outcome of their quest for the ‘me’ advantage, in everything. I live near a small park right on the harbour, a more attractive spot you couldn’t imagine (nor a more expensive area to rent in). The me-people want to build a fifty boat marina, on the water there; they speak of the march of ‘progress’! Unfortunately for us who live here there’ll be no more ‘harbour views’ but you’ll still be able to see water between the hulls.
It seems everyone has their own story here, about the ravages of ‘progress’. So, what can we do about it? Why bother standing in the way of the great juggernaut? Why not just sit back and let it happen? Or why not fight back? Revolution, fighting, military … but that passion translated into fisticuffs has been tried and seen to fail. It’s so twentieth century.
Amongst the rebels, activists, changers, liberals, revolutionaries and general non-conformists, there’s a variety of passionate beliefs. But even within such a seemingly altruistic army there’s always the ‘me’ factor, the wanting to raise our own selves above the general level. It’s that much more obvious in the nakedly, truly psychopathic who’re so obviously self-obsessed, but it needs to be said that all of us have these brains focused on self benefit. ‘Me’.
We are our own cause, dressed in some identity acceptable to ourselves. We protest. But if we’re a tad too narrow, not strong enough in our ‘macro-view’, it’s our ‘me’ holding us back. If we want to fail in our protesting, the micro-me will hold us below our fighting-back point.
The weakening of human fight-back shows the success of propaganda. Eroding waves and generations of collective power sapped by the Animal Industries. We don’t know yet what damage they’ve done but we guess it’s enormous at least. They’ve compromised their customers’ health, they’re responsible for the diabolical conditions millions of individuals live in, and that’s just the beginning of a long list. It’s how they built their power. And it’s our own power we need to recognise. To see our huge individual powers divested not for the ‘me’ but for the so called ‘greater good’. In the end it might be one’s ability to touch or heal or speak or paint or sing or parent - whatever is our own power centre it’s found in rebelling. And that draws its power from the significance of what we do. The one thing missing from the animal exploiters power presentation is significance. I mean significance in terms of the greater good.