tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post6191816160517049166..comments2023-02-12T10:34:53.384-06:00Comments on veganelder: Past, Present and Future.veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-91476005826231217012013-06-27T07:06:48.938-05:002013-06-27T07:06:48.938-05:00Thank you for commenting again Bea.
I was trying ...Thank you for commenting again Bea.<br /><br />I was trying to voice that I don't feel particularly good about attending such a demonstration, I feel sad that the whole community wasn't there and there were only a few "celebrating" the "land run". I really struggle with avoiding being overwhelmed with disgust by the behavior of my species. Terminal disgust and chagrin.veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-17371995496216565942013-06-27T07:00:26.493-05:002013-06-27T07:00:26.493-05:00Thank you for commenting HGV. I've been spendi...Thank you for commenting HGV. I've been spending lots of reading time lately on the behavior of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. I don't think it is inaccurate to see that society and that time and those behaviors as illustrative of human animals as a whole. Too many other societies, including the U.S., have current and historical behaviors way too similar to ignore. We have some real veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-55337060002950630162013-06-26T10:51:33.659-05:002013-06-26T10:51:33.659-05:00You are right. Bad choice of words. It is no effor...You are right. Bad choice of words. It is no effort to stand for an ethical cause. I only meant to say that in comparison to the world it appears to be "chore-like". I shouldn't take their compliance as an example of what should be expected of others who engage.<br /><br />Alice Walker - "Activism is my rent for living on the planet."<br /><br />Sadly we have far too many Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-72000441503700228212013-06-25T19:57:21.236-05:002013-06-25T19:57:21.236-05:00They are innocents who believe the distortions the...<i>They are innocents who believe the distortions they are given by their parents and families and schools and society.</i><br /><br />Yep. And I think it's high time we expand the definitions of child abuse.<br /><br /><i>Is harming those with less power one of our defining group characteristics?</i><br /><br />Sadly, it would seem to be so. While some claim that human animals are at the topHave Gone Veganhttp://www.havegonevegan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-81696733642852522592013-06-22T13:52:47.683-05:002013-06-22T13:52:47.683-05:00Thank you for commenting Bea. It wasn't an eff...Thank you for commenting Bea. It wasn't an effort to protest the lie...I really think stuff like that is required. I've come to appreciate that just sitting around and 'watching the world go by' is an innocuous way of saying "lets turn our planet and our society to those who would destroy it and every living being". Whee.<br /><br />It has all become way too serious to veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-91956755674490896732013-06-19T22:18:52.156-05:002013-06-19T22:18:52.156-05:00As special as these 89er events want to pretend th...As special as these 89er events want to pretend they are, they are all too typical of the common colonial-white, human-male, chest-beating regurgitations of our whole faux-"prosperous" reality. You are right that the hidden wrongs played out as celebrations are insidious and infuriating. The 89er gala is just another version of a grill-fest, a dairy-expo or a columbus day parade - It&#Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.com