Hello,
I am a raw vegan and since I eat that way I had incredible visions of a totally new way to live. I realised that the only thing that I really need is raw food, some clothes and fresh water. And there is no way I'm going to work 40 years eight hours a day to provide these needs. In fact, I was walking through an Ikea with my brother when I realised that I do not need any of this shit and I looked at all the people and they seemed like mere Slaves to me, born to produce and consume. Also I don't want to live in a house or flat I would rather choose to live with nature, not chopping down all the Trees and killing life just to build these streets and houses.
I am a raw vegan and since I eat that way I had incredible visions of a totally new way to live. I realised that the only thing that I really need is raw food, some clothes and fresh water. And there is no way I'm going to work 40 years eight hours a day to provide these needs. In fact, I was walking through an Ikea with my brother when I realised that I do not need any of this shit and I looked at all the people and they seemed like mere Slaves to me, born to produce and consume. Also I don't want to live in a house or flat I would rather choose to live with nature, not chopping down all the Trees and killing life just to build these streets and houses.
Moreover, I work at a primary school in Germany and can see on a daily basis how much animal products these young children consume and how they start screaming in joy when they hear that today there is meat or sausages for lunch. Would love to visit a slaughterhouse with all of them wondering if they would still be smiling.
Anybody can relate to what I am saying?
Anybody can relate to what I am saying?
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan,
I totally understand this insight you had and I have had similar thoughts and feelings. It is a joke to claim that we are free and there is no longer slavery. I am not saying true slavery wasn't horrible and a crime against mankind and nature however we are not free and people are kidding themselves if they believe that they are. I am a slave to a paycheck and unfortunately I am stuck in it right now. I want to find a way to get out of this but it is difficult right but I am sure I will find a way. Where there is a will there is a way.