How we see ourself

Thursday 21st October 2010
We’re creatures of perception - we don’t perceive an evil countenance when we look in the mirror, we see the very best there is to see in the familiar face that looks back at us. We each like ourself in so many ways - we’re perhaps our biggest fan. We and everything on this planet thinks they are magnificent (and why not?) ... until we see a crack in the mirror, which distorts perception and makes for delusion. Our sense of grandeur will not be bruised. But it happens though. It comes with the territory - life as an adult. Ego-uppers, ego-downers and the greatest indignities we don’t like and avoid ... and that causes so much problem down the line. What about this as an example. Humans are superior to other species. It would be very hard to admit this is delusion. We use it as a rock to stand on. It helps us face life. Life is hard. Having some sort of sense of superiority, delusion though it may be, is what we believe we must preserve. Our sense of self is daily underlined by our lifestyle ... now if life for most people today is hard then the LAST thing we need are vegans telling us what we should and shouldn’t eat ... based on moral grounds. The adult omnivore has to have this attitude set in - an ‘attitude’ about veganism and animals being no longer used by humans, to see themselves in the mirror.
Self image doesn’t want the cracks to appear: vegans represent those cracks. Delusion is preferable.