(Embracing the Most Important Thing)

No doubt about it, my Friends, America is indeed “going to Hell in a hand basket” — systemic racism is once again boiling over into our streets, homophobic bigotry is still infused into almost every church & almost every classroom, the poor are getting much poorer and the rich are getting much richer, U.S. politicians are far more corrupt than caring — and now according to the FBI are even officially above the law, Israel persecutes Palestine with American money and Saudi Arabia persecutes Yemen (and even their own citizens) with American weapons, drones are still murdering innocent men & women & their children by the thousands (and creating thousands of new terrorists in the process), the innocent are still being profiled & rounded up & imprisoned for profit, our food has been tainted and our water has been poisoned and our air has been toxified … And to top it all off, our mass media keeps feeding us the same old narratives — keeps shoveling the same old lies down our throats; bombarding us with constant visions of violence designed to make us feel weak and afraid and hopeless.

Indeed, there are so many graphic problems in American society today, that it is very easy to feel overwhelmed; very easy to succumb to the myth that “I can’t make a difference”; very easy for us all to simply sigh and sit back and shrug our shoulders; to wish we could do something to stop the madness, but to end up doing nothing at all instead.

Well, I am here today to offer you all some very Good News: There IS something you can do — something that will have a HUGE positive impact on your health & your longevity & your state of mind & even the well-being of your planet. And this something happens to also be THE solution to THE most important crisis facing humanity to this day … And this solution is one that requires no outside assistance to undertake, and it is one that the government cannot stop you from implementing. It is potent & it is powerful & it is vibrant … and it is necessary.

This solution — this brave act of positive change; this selfless act social justice & this clarion call for human salvation — is veganism.

 

*That’s right, as important as the elimination of police brutality & racist violence & homophobic persecution are, going vegan is currently more important — and is indeed actually a potent means to their imminent end … For we will never treat minorities with the dignity and the respect they deserve until we are willing to treat animals with the same resepct & dignity.

*And as important as the erasure of income inequality and the elimination of political privilege are, going vegan is currently more important — and is indeed a powerful step in that just & equitable direction … For we will never be treated fairly by either our economic “masters” or our political “leaders” until we are willing to treat animals with same sense of integrity and fairness.

*And as important as the abandonment of evil alliances and the cessation of all drone-murders are, going vegan is currently more important — and is indeed a necessary precursor to that shining beacon of World Peace … For we will never know Goodness in our relations with others in lands other until we stop aligning ourselves with evil on our very own plates.

*And as important as the mass incarceration of innocent lives is, going vegan is currently more important — and indeed is the key that will one day unlock those cells of shattered dreams and tear down those walls of injustice … For we will never know real Freedom or fully embrace the inalienable rights with which we have all been endowed until we choose to grant our animal brothers & sisters the same inherent liberties.

*And as important as wholesome sustenance, pure water & clean air are, going vegan is currently more important — and indeed is the only way those fundamental necessities will ever return to our lives … For we will never know real Health & Well-Being while poisoning our bodies with the rotting flesh and curdled secretions of the abused and the terrified, and we will never know real Harmony with our surroundings while we are poisoning our planet with the fetid byproducts of an industry that runs on mass-torture and that discards mountains of rotting death.

Yes, my Friends, the media is doing a marvelous job of repeatedly exposing you to the apparent hopelessnes of the situation — encouraging you to abandon courage; calling for you to sink feebly into your sofas; whispering for you to cease protesting for all that is Right & True.

And yet YOU DO NOT NEED THE MEDIA to tell you what is truly important. For you already know what is Right — and you already know what is Just — and you already know what is Fair — and you already know what is True.

Don’t get me wrong — all grave social ills deserved to be cured. All swords of wickedness need to be beaten into ploughshares of Kindness and all shackles of oppresssion need to be woven into fabrics of Freedom. As such, I do indeed call for each of you to raise your voices loudly & courageously in response to whichever social injustices strike you as being most poignant. Invest in whichever of them you wish the time & the energy that is yours to give — AND — please remember that it is critcial for the survival of our species that you choose to live as a vegan while doing so.

After all, what good is fighting for justice while living unjustly? … What good is fighting for freedom while damning others to bondage? … What good is fighting to repair a society that you are literally destroying with every meal?

Please consider these things with humility …
… and then please act on them with courage.

Thank you.

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt