The erupting stoush

Once, as vegans, we enter the public domain with our own ideas (which happen to be based on vegan philosophy) we begin clear-thinking and speed of thought, a sort of ‘auto-piloted’ process in which we don’t have to think-out from scratch what to do. Things are clearer, they fit together better so we can handle the big challenges better. (Being vegan is all about big challenges!). Maybe becoming vegan allows us, for the first time in our lives, to see both personal and global challenges as testing opportunities instead of headaches - chances presented to help us (collectively or individually) to make a leap-ahead. To feel useful in a bigger way, in a world where challenges portend wonderful things for humanity in the future. Being vegan lets you think broadly enough to see the human arriving somewhere significant - as part of the greater species that we, as humans, could be.
Yep, you say, that’s the future, but what about now?
Hey, but isn’t the future as valid as now? Isn’t that the big difficulty we all have, as rational-thinking humans - still believing ‘now’ is more important than ‘up-ahead’. We’ve fallen for the ephemeral. But as vegans, seeing problems turn to challenges and then turn to projections of something attractive, THAT’S a welcome sign.
What a boost, to be able to see or foresee humans as bigger than today’s ‘little’ humans. All this ‘up-aheaded-ness’ may make our heads spin but it may be the key, to becoming effective advocates for Animal Rights.
Call this the ‘bigger picture’ if you like. A bit too big and rather indigestible as daily fare, perhaps, but it is what most of us do, most of the time, isn’t it? Project. We experience the ‘now’, yes, but very often we’re busy in our minds, looking ahead ... to what we want the world to be like. The bigger picture represents, maybe, the sort of legacy we want to leave behind - the sort of world we want to help build. And hang it, to build it takes bricks, and the bricks of today are thoughts. ‘Thought-bricks’ make attitude, make big changes ... and vegans see that. That’s what vegans see with their clearer minds. Can you believe this, that avoiding animal foods, eating from the plant kingdom, could do that? Give us mental clarity? We might already realise vegan diet is slimming, good for athletes, good for long-living, energy-heavy, etc, but health sharpness-wise?
If it is, and obviously I think it is, then I’d say this is the most attractive feature of vegan food. If it is, then it’s vital for advocacy ... therefore vital for the success of all our relationships, whether with animals or humans. This fastness-of-thought is one of the characteristics of people who are plant-based feeders. This isn’t just a whim on my part, saying this, but it’s obvious to me as I suppose it is to anyone who has met plant eaters, and compared their mental acuity with the relatively sluggish average omnivore, when they’re ‘at-thought’.