Big shiftings

Adults have gone badly astray and lead their kids astray with them. With ten or twenty years of indoctrination, young people don’t stand a chance to forge their own personality ... and yet they do. Some instinct in some young people tells them that humans could be wrong about the most fundamental things. They go to war to solve their differences, they believe in violence, they eat animals - it all ties up that way.
Trying to communicate that message, if not in such an extreme form, vegans have to have a special approach. And this is what this blog is all about I suppose, mainly me trying to work out and write down anything that will launch new approaches which seem at first either counterproductive or just plain ineffective. I seem to be suggesting almost contrary ways of examining the problems facing us, problems familar to any of us trying to communicate Animal Rights.
The problem, as I see it, is that in general humans are entrenched (and I specifically mean those who are not vegan and who don’t consider moving that way). Also, specifically not kids as they can be held accountable. They haven’t started to make their own decisions and neither have young adults when it comes to basic foods eaten. But habits haven’t grown into entrenchments. So they are still capable of making changes. If we can give them enough confidence to change they probably will, if they value their life and if they value others’lives.
For most others, they are way past the stage of even considering a new ‘good’ idea. If they took the idea of veganism seriously could they enact it? Could they change their whole life style?
The scale of change isn’t understood, or it’s forgotten that we could take on preposterous shifts in the mind when we were kids. The scale of imaginative adventure has no limits for kids. They take on anything, and indeed this is how veganism must seem to the onlooker. Such a big change that it’s only familiar from when we were young. We equate adulthood with ‘settling down’ and consolidating. Past a certain age, unless we’ve made our move early, it’s unlikely our ‘habit-self’ will allow us to go vegetarian let alone vegan.
How great the gulf is, then, between practising vegans and practising ‘non-vegans’. It’s not small!
Maybe in order to hit the ground running one would need to be about two years old, not chronologically but in the spontaneously-taking-on-new-ideas-sense. However, that level of fluidity isn’t yet fashionable amongst the thinking set. So, it won’t necessarily appear yet awhile. So vegans must wait but in the meantime gnaw away at fashion by appealling to the very best and most aesthetic in people.