Everybody, every group wants to change the world their way,
by hurting one group to help another group. It never works longterm; you know that strategy that cures a discrimination with another discrimination, but they keep doing it anyway. Somebody always loses, usually the ones who never had anything to do with the discrimination in the first place.
It came to be called collective punishment in some regions. The outcome is to stall a peace process and keep the factions bickering and stewing while one side benefits and the ones with less money thus less power lose. Or the ones with more money thus more power lose for reparation sake for past grievances and offenses. Nobody leaves happy. Even those who appear to have won something? What they lost to get so little was hardly worth the pain and suffering endured to get something so meaningless whether looking at the big or small picture of it all.
The best way to change the world your way is to work on yourself first. Without that, you have nothing of value that anybody is interested in replicating or inserting into their lives.
You have to mostly practice what you preach. Nobody is perfect in an imperfect world, even rocks have flaws. And if most of us are doing it the wrong way, it’s difficult to be the needle in the haystack doing it the right way if nobody can find you to see what you do that’s so different yet so right.
CHALLENGE YOURSELF FIRST.
GO THE DISTANCE.
FEEL THE PAIN OF ISOLATION.
EMBRACE IT.
RISE ABOVE IT.
THEN WALK WITH IT.
LET IT ALL BE YOU.
SHINE IF ONLY FOR YOURSELF.
THEN PATTERN YOUR LIFE AFTER YOUR GOALS.
When others wryly sneer out of the corner of their mouths, “Oh, you’re one of those fake meat eaters”, reply, “No I’m an ANIMAL-FREER. I don’t eat animals. I eat from the Garden, not the Barn”.
“Well, we do both, Garden and Barn.”
“Well, you have blood on your hands and I don’t.”
“So you think you’re better than us?”
“Yes. Yes. I do”
“How so?”
“I can’t look an animal in the eye, say I love you, then kill and eat them.”
“Not even to feed your family?”
“Why did you have a family, before you had a plan to feed them?”
“The weather is bad here, not always good for crops.”
“When’s the last time you went a year without crops? What century do you live in?”
“My family’s been here for a thousand years, give or take.”
“Did you know that foods are shipped all over the world to even the most remote places?”
“Yes, but it’s always half and half. Garden and Barn.”
“Did you ever think about leaving the Barn half off and going with only the Garden?”
“When my folks got sick, doctor said they were eating too much fat, smoking, drinking, hardship led to early deaths.
Sometimes during the kill, I could hear my father cry, telling them he’d meet them in heaven.”
- sldt
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