WALTER EDMUND BOND (37096013)
11/29/2015 8:35:36 AM

The Great Disconnect

One of the major problems with the modern day manifestations of the Animal Rights Movement And the Straight Edge lifestyle seems to be a disconnect between rhetoric, speech and creed versus behavior, practice and reality. this disease of hypocrisy effects modern civilization at large and is part and parcel of the schizophrenia, neurosis and perversion that pervades and infects most of our lives.

A large cross section of activists in general and Animal Rights/welfare activists in particular pretend at concern and respect for Animals lives while simultaneously dining on their dead bodies, drinking cow secretions and eating the scrambled, poached and calcified menstruation cycles of chickens.

Many of those that critique technology and civilization do so from their computer screens and outside of postulating on paper they often have more real world experience as a technophile than a survivalist, Luddite or even the basic country or mountain dweller. Many a Vegan I have known medicates themselves with drugs both legal or illegal that are currently or have been tested on Animals. Under the guise of medicine, stress relief or outright addiction, exactly like the rest of the masses that sit on their asses!

These blatant hypocrisies breed weakness and defeatism while also undermining the purity and strength that a righteous life has to offer. And in the end it is the system that profits at the expense of the oppressed and downtrodden. The system could care less about your philosophies, what books you read, or the bulk of your internet viewing or social media posting. Sure the system will monitor them for purposes of safety and security but the content itself is largely of no interest to the powers that be. So long as what you purchase and the way you live is in keeping with the systems wants and needs it could care less about the latest fashions and trends under the guise of resistance. As long as you partake in popular culture, they know, they have you.

The reason being is that what you do is much closer to what you believe than what you say or display. And what you do (as well as refuse to do) will have a far more altering effect upon your outlook, worldview and personality than contemplation and speculation. Furthermore, those who believe or espouse one thing and then do the other (in short most people today in western civilization) when faced with a serious threat of violence, prison, fear or even denial of their petty vices will most often do an about face, turning on everyone and everything they claim so emphatically to hold dear. These are largely symptoms of the sick and degenerative times in which we now live.

Of course hypocrisy, con men, and soothsayers have always existed but now it’s expected, as a given, that consistency is ‘dogmatic’ and ‘unrealistic’ or altogether unnecessary. this is because our society pushes quantity over qualitybr. The greedy, fat and gluttonous always prefer the prospect of ‘more’ over ‘better’….. But I don’t

I suppose I am a bit of a relic, perhaps a tad archaic in my thinking, but I’m alright with that. I’m one of those that values consistency, I tend towards it, whether it is attainable in the absolute or not. Because a consistent and determined approach to life breeds success in our actions and endeavors . Any educated or smooth talking showman can parrot words, rabble rouse or make a career out of sounding good. All protest movements these days abound with sellouts and old peaceniks that live lucratively making sure that outrage at social injustice is only channeled into ridiculous and ineffective displays of symbolic gesture. It’s better to have a courageous heart and a silent resolve than it is to have the non-existent wherewithal of a coward and a flake!

Along with the great disconnect between belief and action comes this paint-by-numbers brand of protestation. these mimicries and templates of so-called resistance. Hold a sign, chant a slogan, have a public temper tantrum, get on the evening news, join a group, write a letter, table an event, lockdown/hold hands etc. all these tired and played out versions of activism have the same thing in common. They all play more to the emotional needs of the activist than their cause of concern.

In the case of Animal they do not help at all. Animals in cages, in laboratories, in slaughterhouses, in circuses and all other places of use and abuse, captivity and torture are not the least bit aware of people yelling at a wall while holding up a sign. Even if you sat a television in front of their cage to show them the protest movement that exists on their behalf (one which shows it’s concerns purely in human centric ways that only hold significance to a small number of people) it is doubtful that any non human Animal could understand or psychologically benefit in anyway from these charades done in their name. This is often the reason why many folks at large think animal welfarists/activists are either insincere, or a little off in the head. Because it’s obvious that the modes of activism are pretentious and /or somewhat detached from reality.

At the end of the day if you really care about Animals or are sensitive to the ways in which they are bred, exploited and murdered you can decide not to take part in their oppression in every consumer decision you make by going Vegan. If you want to do more you can help actual Animals, The world is teeming with the Animal victims of human exploitation, manipulation and apathy. If you want to go further then you can decide your own level of involvement and intervention on their behalf. And all of this will have a direct impact on strengthening your belief, resolve and desire to do still more, which is good for the Animals.

It’s long past time for those concerned about the Earth, Animals and all Innocent Life to put down these failed and outmoded forms of protestation that are more focused on busy work to fill the psychological needs of the activist personality type (along with the largely irrelevant and divisive rhetoric of anarchism and hyper-leftism) and focus on how we can help save Animals and the Earth today! Or how we can intervene against those destroying or diminishing all Innocent Life with their poisonous and toxic lifestyles of filth and greed.

It’s time for a return to the morality, ethics, edification, justice and compassion in action that has always traditionally separated the Vegan Straight Edge from the regressive and diluted hippie-crits that soften and plague the cause for Animal Rights. Along with this we need a return to sincerity, anonymity and action. Coupled with a digression from the selfish displays of activism that are merely designed to be a pressure valve to the activist community at large. Rather the movement needs to become an effective lightning rod against the status quo.

Animal Liberation, Whatever It May Take!!!

Regards,

Abdul Haqq
ALF POW

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Walter Bond
37096-013
FCI Greenville
PO Box 5000
Greenville IL 62246