Dream About Me

[Thalassa]

So I watched the first minute and a half or two of Dream About Me by Moby and I couldn't finish watching it because I find even fictional animal cruelty torturous, but after reading the comments section and about Moby and his probable motivation for making the video (including an interview where he explains making one choice affects pretty much everything in the world) I realized that the video is a metaphor for the cruelty that goes on every day, especially in the Western world, that goes on because of mindless choices. Like people saying well, organic food is no different than non organic because of xyz, but the truth is, the farming techniques themselves for non organic produce are destroying the OVERALL ENVIRONMENT, which eventually affects human health, whether the individual vegetable did or not.
And it should be perfectly obvious to anyone who knows anything about farming why organic is of specific importance when it comes to the handling of animals rather than produce. This in turn affects things like air and water pollution, and world hunger, as well as obesity and cancer. The implications of the choices we make have a traceable butterfly effect on everything in the world, and the more globalized we have become the more intense the effects. The video Dream About Me is about a cute stray kitten, but it's about the appalling cruelty that goes on through simple ignorance and neglect.

It's enough to make someone want to become some kind of evangelist, but I'm not an EXFJ I don't have that much patience and tact (as many of you well know)....and that's why I started lean towards forestry, something I could DO without having to argue with anyone or try to convince them of anything.

 

[JAVO]

....and that's why I started lean towards forestry, something I could DO without having to argue with anyone or try to convince them of anything.

I dunno... trees can be pretty stubborn about where they're standing or where they decide to fall sometimes.

 

[Thalassa]

I identify myself so closely w, ith particular personal values that I have learned with hard experielice that it would be pretty much self torture to make confrontation, no matter how masked in pleasantry, my job. I watched a documentary about people who spy undercover in places like factory farms, and I marveled at their ability to detach themselves for the sake of their bigger ideals, literally surrounded by real life horror of the most detestable sort, and taking action and pressing charges after filming and recording illegal acts against workers, animals or the environment. I don't think I could be that detached, I wondered if it had more to do with personality type than emotional maturity. Emotional .maturity is me knowing I can't handle that situation, to subject myself to it wouldn't benefit anyone. I'm only just now learning to own my reaction to things I feel strongly about, largely based in my belief that strong passions are a sign of life and heart, and that I have the right or even the responsibility to defend myself or others, even when it is counterproductive to do so. I'm just now learning to deal with that, , so I can't imagine having to constantly teach or try to personally evangelize others. I have to learn I can't convince certain people of anything, I can only offer information and detach from the outcome. In that vein, something hands on seems sensible and productive, I'm actually making a difference instead of pissing in the wind. And it really is easier to offer information to children, they're often more inquisitive or receptive, having not formed a lot of strong personal judgments, that's what I do in my volunteer work. It's tough, especially to spot state failures or laws that should be changed (like how there currently is no full-time ranger at a local LA wetlands, and self centered educated middle class people just flagrantly disobey posted signs like rebelling teenagers with a sense of entitlement, it's sickening)...I have to distance myself from these sorts of things, or I won't be any good to anyone.