SparrowHawk
@SparrowHawk@feddit.it
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 week ago:
Hey, dont mention it, I totally get it. This society primes us for the reaction you had, we are constantly ready for a fight, and it is not your fault, it is our conditioning. Finding the way to dispel that curse is the way we get to people’s hearts.
Just a side not, I absolutely do not think that radicalism is always stupid, or stupid at all. “Deep roots are not reached by frost”, we need conviction and strong ideals, and to further clarify, I do think that veganism is the end goal for a truly advanced society and a healed world and people.
The point is just that to communicate radical ideas we do not need to be in constant anger. Most people respond well when you engage with them and their differences with curiosity, asking questions instead of directly challenging their ways right away. Our communication must be like water, seeking the path of least resistance, yes, but always ending at the sea or a lake. People already know (in some level) that their lifestyles are wrong. That isnt the Epiphany. The epiphany is helping them build up the idea that it is not to late, that they are not irredeemable, and that change is possible.
People do not want to feel irredeemable and as you said, when talking to Normies abt veganism ppl get defensive. It is largely the fault of propaganda, but more critically, it’s the shame angle that always, always fails. Responsibility is a different concept, and it melds better in the mind
The only way to change is with grace, compassion, and when needed, severity and discipline, distributed sparingly.
You have to imagine current human society as a collective made of children, fragile, sensitive, impulsive. They will mirror what they perceive, despite your intentions
I hope this helps, and thank you for reading my comment and being graceful
- Comment on Hideo Kojima gives an update on OD and reveals PHYSINT's lead, Bill Skarsgård 2 weeks ago:
He really likes wasting money on big actors
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
I never said you shouldn’t talk about it. I didn’t even say you personally shouldn’t talk the way you currently are. But do you understand that cultural change doesn’t happen just because you shout and scream at people who disagree with you? Even when you’re 100 percent right.
You CANNOT blame regular people as much as you do. People are uneducated, evolutionarily primed to be manipulated, and defensive. I personally do not feel bad when I am blamed for that, I know it is bad, I agree. I already know I should eat even less meat than I do now, and slowly but steadily i am doing it. But it wasnt the shame that put me on this, it was the empathy, it was the curiosity, it was the EXACT OPPOSITE of shame that brought me on the path.
Shame is for Christians. It brings Christian results. Us vs them. The radical vegan approach to communication enables the idea that veganism is ridiculous, not because it is wrong, but because it seems like its the only communication that gets through.
You feel righteous anger, rightly so, but that anger when aimed at regular people you are trying (supposedly) to convince,just makes veganism seem a tantrum instead of a mission. The way you speak seems to me like you’re feeding your ego, not like you are saving the world.
And what are you feeding it with? Other people’s shame. By definition, not a vegan source.
Pardon my joke, but I felt like biting back since you took my honest attempt at communicating as just another excuse to bark and release your anger.
Your fight is just, your energy is right. But “making people feel bad” isnt really a method. Just venting. I dont know the blueprint for a better way, but telling you this is my way of looking for help in searching one.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 4 weeks ago:
This approach isnt helping the cause, you can’t conflate that responsibility to everyone. Guilt tripping is a Christian method
- Comment on bold words 7 months ago:
You ADHD transgender
- Comment on Stop scrolling and adore this animal for a little 9 months ago:
The owls are not what they seem
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 year ago:
…go to therapy…
- Comment on Uhm 1 year ago:
My dream
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 1 year ago:
A hookah but worse
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 1 year ago:
I puty my hopes into Archetype, Exodus seems like it could be cool. No news for months now tho…
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 year ago:
You can’t do shit with public transport?
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 1 year ago:
Pasta Italianman
Or Italia Pastaman
Maybe Peppino Mafiera
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app 1 year ago:
Gotta convince the friends to switch again
- Comment on Everyone is watching me 1 year ago:
They are pathetic servants of the panipticon, so caught up in the way they feel the eyes that they enact it in the hopes to quell the monsters they are scared of. Defy them. Give them something they don’t want to talk about. Or run away, or ignore whatever useless things they shit from their mouth. There are many tools, don’t let the bastards grind you down
- Comment on Everyone is watching me 1 year ago:
Just imagine you are a rebel in an dictatorship. Find the small shadows where your light can safely hide in. Share that light with those who cherish yours, and little by little, our flame will burn the enemy’s poison
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 year ago:
Funny story: once i took a shit that was eerily red and started to panic. I searched and searched for possible causes and then after getting up i noticed in my trash bin an emptied 100g pack of beetroot chips i ravaged in a weed-addled munchies frenzy, and facepalmed
- Comment on Everyone is watching me 1 year ago:
It’s the social panopticon. But the point of the panopticon is that no one is really watching. What we feel on our eyes is the abstract eye of ideology, which constantly tries to constrain our souls and bodies into well defined (and inaccurate) frames so that we will be compliant.
DEFY THE EYE CLAIM YOUR IDENTITY THE GRESTEST BATTLE IS IN OUR MIND
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 year ago:
Turtle pope is real
- Comment on Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift 1 year ago:
Manufacturing also gets cheaper when scaled
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 year ago:
Prove it
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 year ago:
We can choose what we live for, and that’s the most meaningful thing I can think of
- Comment on Anon is lacking something metaphysical 1 year ago:
Anon no basket
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 1 year ago:
I love these posts, you should consider saving them as pDFs and make them like a fanzine, maybe it could be a community effort, somehow!
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 year ago:
It’s just a catalyst. Or rather a mirror
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Beh it’s the NSA fishing for incels
- Comment on Hotel Galactic (in development), a fantasy hotel management game set in a "flying age of sail ships" world, with beautiful hand drawn graphics and narrative focus, releases a demo on Steam 1 year ago:
Very cool but…does it kinda look like AI art to anyone else?
- Comment on He's taking some deep drags on that Marlboro as he considers what to do 1 year ago:
Do it. Just flood it. Try with dolphins next time
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 1 year ago:
No one is saying that
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 year ago:
That would just make the molepeople mad and double our problems
- Comment on Potash is eternal 1 year ago:
But what is potash?