The surest sign you are ready to change is when you don’t wake up from your dream.
Philosophy, poetry, pondering of the soul: Cruelty in the food industry.
We’re all the same force, diffracted and reflecting visions of ourselves, not necessarily good or bad, yet we assume our role to be the highest form of “good” through the illusion of ego, attaching distorted value through the perception of difference. When we torture and enslave defenseless animals, it is digressive to say they are less valuable than humans, when ultimately they are from the same source and are of the same force, and we must accept the moral and spiritual repercussions of our actions. Violence is sometimes necessary in self defense and self preservation, but the disgraceful routine that is animal cruelty is not enacted out of necessity but out of greed and convenience. Animals are sometimes castrated and skinned alive with no sedatives or painkillers whatsoever before they reach our plate. This begs the question, what if you were in the position of the cow or what if it was someone you loved. This is a plea for awareness, a plea for reconstruction as we must evolve past our folly. It is the natural law of change, of evolution. This is not a plea to stop you from eating meat, but instead a plea for thought behind the process of how it is accrued, and foremost this is a plea that we may come together so that we may change the system and in doing so better it and ourselves as we have done so many times before: the civil rights movement, sufferage, etc.
-Jerryharris3
Well said!
Here are a few more punky vegan animal exploitation cliche remixes. Some real factory farmed, inhumanely slaughtered, chicken soup for the soul…
“That was the straw you so dickishly placed on the already obviously overburdened camel, thus breaking the poor animal’s back.”
“Don’t move my cheese! Because you already exploited the cow to get the milk for the cheese, so it’s kind of adding insult to injury to be quite honest!”
“Shooting innocent fish while they’re swimming around, minding their own business, is fine—but it just seems too simple to do when they’re in a barrel.”
Can’t promise I’m done, but I’m done for now!
And it don’t stop…
“Don’t beat a dead horse because beating it to death is fine, but after that point it is a bit egregious.”
[Thanks indieheroine for the cliche suggestion :)]
Cliche Remixploitation Series cont’d
“I don’t have a dog in this forced battle to the death between two innocent creatures all for the unnecessary purposes of entertainment and profiteering.”
Cliche Remixploitation Series
“Let’s kill two birds with one stone, thus doubling the efficiency of our sadism.”
[Do you have any to share?]
Thinking about starting a series of cliches with a small but important twist—revealing how messed up they are. Here’s one: “There’s more than one way to do something horrible to a cat.”
Famous Advice on Writing
The collected wisdom of great writers, including Vonnegut, Hemingway, Didion, Sontag, Fitzgerald, Orwell, Kerouac, Atwood, Steinbeck, and more:
This is some good stuff. I have a lot of respect for writers. I used to be more enamored by musicians, but the pendulum has swung to writers for me.
wherethecoconutsgrow asked: What are the 3 things in your life that you would like to change?
Thanks for asking! I will say that it is a difficult question for me to answer because I have been working so much with my inner Buddha to accept what is in my life. But setting that aside, and indulging the part of me that would happily change some things, let’s see…
1) I posted a little while ago about a career change within the company that I work. I am excited for it, I’ve communicated to the powers that be about it, and…I am now waiting for change. I’m reading books and trying to study up for the challenges ahead, but I would like to transition sooner rather than later! It’s like being in a relationship with someone who you know is not right for you — change just can’t come soon enough.
2) I am living in the same house that my ex wife and I bought almost 5 years ago. I have been trying to get out of it for some time now, and am ready for this transition to be complete as well. It is in a foreclosure process, which is great for temporary finances. However, I don’t relate to the neighborhood, and it is just a constant reminder of that relationship. So I would like to be out of this house and into my next living situation!
3) This will be vague, but I am not where I want to be with all of my relationships. It is interesting how, as we get older, our lives become more fixed and complicated, and we have certain things that we have to work around. It isn’t like being young, when anything goes, and there are so few walls. I guess I just wish that thing were simpler, and that there wouldn’t be so many complications with friendships/relationships.
All of this being said, I am actually very happy with where my life is right now. I feel like I am making positive choices, and even these things I want to change have silver linings. I believe that life shouldn’t be easy, and it is the difficulty that makes it meaningful.
Thanks again!
