Culture and Counterculture: Ecology and "The End of the World".
28 January 2018 [link youtube]
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Vegan / Vegans / Veganism / Ecology / Ecological Politics / Activism
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you know, do you become vegan and then break
or is it that you're someone who's already it easy to engage with veganism. a really interesting piece of the puzzle and organize vegans, right? and each one is kind of fragmented away from it or acting out against it in different ways, as different as I am from Fully Raw Kristina, even we’re as different as I am from Gary the burden that I've lived with all my life, me a coherent framework and a lens to understand the word perspective, it put all the other was big and what was in fact small but close really were huge but perhaps you know more brought to the vegan movement…” he says brought to the vegan movement has been critique different approaches become crystallised for ideas for me, and I hope you will find your ones, and we can all inspire each other with another youtuber called theFlemface about already breaking with [your own] culture.” also true about my engagement with Buddhism in some ways because you've just been we've a lot of things in your basement, see what I was never comfortable in Canadian culture, culture that I grew up with either. you know, do you become vegan and then break or is it that you're someone who's already it easy to engage with veganism, and for some know what I mean like it doesn't have to be my own culture, I could go over some of the political events prior to 2001, relates to know what it would be like for someone who living in Texas and his protest… and you with that culture and you know watches football vegan. so on often enough, but in terms of ethical vegan, once you see the world in those terms, how you know how do you still watch football sincerely, I don't mean that as a taunt or of your life now watching football and you veganism even if you just think of at the of animals dying in cages all around the world even though you personally aren't eating ribs it must suddenly make the other things in even not just meaningless but you know pernicious opposed to saving the world, as part of a life as opposed to a meaningful and helpful to insult her, nor the flatter her, but you Fully Raw Kristina, Fully Raw Kristina obviously ways and you know she is Texan and she lives up where she's at I guess with that perspective. a really interesting piece of the puzzle and organize vegans, right? and each one is kind of fragmented away from it or acting out against it in different ways, as different as I am from Fully Raw Kristina, even we’re as different as I am from Gary I mean Gary Francione is obviously incredibly of, Gary Francione, you get that rage and just dissatisfaction too, just ranker, but if he's retired now you know, in many ways on and yeah getting any two or three of those even though I have so much in common with agree on how to pronounce his name. a separate video, but for all of us I mean the number of hours in a day and how you can save the world compatible with the challenge a decent standard of living to your own kids this is in Mahayana Buddhism but they say, not the most ancient texts of Buddhism, it your hat is on a fire,” you know if you're a lot of religions have that spirit of like and devote yourself to this whatever I mean world is gonna end I feel that the world is a horrible, I mean it's an absolutely horrible and ecologically and um you know I do still how would you live your life if you were trying four years old I do prioritize spending down fly from Canada to France and spend my 15 things but sure when we're looking at these degree and being a tree surgeon doing something back when I was a political science major of Ecology at another university, not worth of work it was taking the subway for so many take a bus to go from one universe to the I was trying to talk to people there because switch my major from Political Science to course when I got there, departments a joke, know how it is, you know how universities that, But my problem is I have no delusion, that getting a PhD in Ecology could make any channel, I don't think if I got a PhD in Ecology way, I don't think it would help the vegan anything I could do that Gary Francione hasn't already done, without having a PhD in ecology, me anything I couldn't learn you know, okay of things, but they wouldn't teach me what like Gary Franconine and Gary Yourofsky have at more higher education we were looking at or not we should become lawyers go to law it to you know going to get a degree in culinary in pastries working in a kitchen rolling out a platform for making that difference in the and joking around a lot before we came on you know I’ve got to say it's the burden do feel that way, but veganism gave me a coherent express it much better than before. I was vegan I cared way more about never owning the car right, still never have driven a car that kind of thing in this much more meaningful like some of my ex-girlfriends when I first never using a plastic bag and I said to them want me to show you what percentage of the it, the human waste stream is reusable plastic difference between using a reusable and disposable, plastic bags cause more pollution as well, do you want to look at the difference between ecological or ethical cause, but veganism questions and those misgivings, and it was veganism, all those other questions you know perspective, it put all the other problems and what was in fact small but close to you, were huge but perhaps you know more remote.
or is it that you're someone who's already it easy to engage with veganism. a really interesting piece of the puzzle and organize vegans, right? and each one is kind of fragmented away from it or acting out against it in different ways, as different as I am from Fully Raw Kristina, even we’re as different as I am from Gary the burden that I've lived with all my life, me a coherent framework and a lens to understand the word perspective, it put all the other was big and what was in fact small but close really were huge but perhaps you know more brought to the vegan movement…” he says brought to the vegan movement has been critique different approaches become crystallised for ideas for me, and I hope you will find your ones, and we can all inspire each other with another youtuber called theFlemface about already breaking with [your own] culture.” also true about my engagement with Buddhism in some ways because you've just been we've a lot of things in your basement, see what I was never comfortable in Canadian culture, culture that I grew up with either. you know, do you become vegan and then break or is it that you're someone who's already it easy to engage with veganism, and for some know what I mean like it doesn't have to be my own culture, I could go over some of the political events prior to 2001, relates to know what it would be like for someone who living in Texas and his protest… and you with that culture and you know watches football vegan. so on often enough, but in terms of ethical vegan, once you see the world in those terms, how you know how do you still watch football sincerely, I don't mean that as a taunt or of your life now watching football and you veganism even if you just think of at the of animals dying in cages all around the world even though you personally aren't eating ribs it must suddenly make the other things in even not just meaningless but you know pernicious opposed to saving the world, as part of a life as opposed to a meaningful and helpful to insult her, nor the flatter her, but you Fully Raw Kristina, Fully Raw Kristina obviously ways and you know she is Texan and she lives up where she's at I guess with that perspective. a really interesting piece of the puzzle and organize vegans, right? and each one is kind of fragmented away from it or acting out against it in different ways, as different as I am from Fully Raw Kristina, even we’re as different as I am from Gary I mean Gary Francione is obviously incredibly of, Gary Francione, you get that rage and just dissatisfaction too, just ranker, but if he's retired now you know, in many ways on and yeah getting any two or three of those even though I have so much in common with agree on how to pronounce his name. a separate video, but for all of us I mean the number of hours in a day and how you can save the world compatible with the challenge a decent standard of living to your own kids this is in Mahayana Buddhism but they say, not the most ancient texts of Buddhism, it your hat is on a fire,” you know if you're a lot of religions have that spirit of like and devote yourself to this whatever I mean world is gonna end I feel that the world is a horrible, I mean it's an absolutely horrible and ecologically and um you know I do still how would you live your life if you were trying four years old I do prioritize spending down fly from Canada to France and spend my 15 things but sure when we're looking at these degree and being a tree surgeon doing something back when I was a political science major of Ecology at another university, not worth of work it was taking the subway for so many take a bus to go from one universe to the I was trying to talk to people there because switch my major from Political Science to course when I got there, departments a joke, know how it is, you know how universities that, But my problem is I have no delusion, that getting a PhD in Ecology could make any channel, I don't think if I got a PhD in Ecology way, I don't think it would help the vegan anything I could do that Gary Francione hasn't already done, without having a PhD in ecology, me anything I couldn't learn you know, okay of things, but they wouldn't teach me what like Gary Franconine and Gary Yourofsky have at more higher education we were looking at or not we should become lawyers go to law it to you know going to get a degree in culinary in pastries working in a kitchen rolling out a platform for making that difference in the and joking around a lot before we came on you know I’ve got to say it's the burden do feel that way, but veganism gave me a coherent express it much better than before. I was vegan I cared way more about never owning the car right, still never have driven a car that kind of thing in this much more meaningful like some of my ex-girlfriends when I first never using a plastic bag and I said to them want me to show you what percentage of the it, the human waste stream is reusable plastic difference between using a reusable and disposable, plastic bags cause more pollution as well, do you want to look at the difference between ecological or ethical cause, but veganism questions and those misgivings, and it was veganism, all those other questions you know perspective, it put all the other problems and what was in fact small but close to you, were huge but perhaps you know more remote.