In the dissatisfaction of a growing number of participants in the real vampire community can be found the blueprint for an improved society, a way of bringing vampires together for all of the benefits of group socialization while honoring individual independence. To put that blueprint into words that can be shared with every vampire was our goal during the Halloween-Day of the Dead revels of 2010. Here I bring you the result of that effort, and hope I am contributing something positive.
We have chosen the word “entente” for the peaceful and diplomatic overtones it seems to convey. Civilized societies resolve their difference in peace and diplomacy. Why should the vampire community be any different?
The Entente espouses an evolved philosophy. If we assume that all paths of the real vampire existence are legitimate and suited to those who walk them, we have then achieved a global community of acceptance. Everyone has the basic right to be a vampire as they see fit, and everyone should allow this right. After all, we are vampires. It is not for anyone to tell any of us what can and cannot be done. But this doesn’t need to degenerate into anarchy. We need to respect each other and other ideas. Then have we begun to attain the mental freedom and attunement that are the rewards of the vampire.
Groups might try to have members to believe that they owe the group some form of allegiance. This too conflicts with what is vampire. Each of us owes allegiance only to ourselves. Now if we choose to give allegiance, we’re realizing a choice, which returns us to the locus of the allegiance being ourselves. Along these lines is the question of leaders and hierarchies in vampire groups. Stratification is far from the free mind of the vampire. How can such a being be hemmed in by titles and the obstacle courses insisted upon to get these titles? More often than not the hierarchal structure is a cause for confusion. Ultimately the path to power is an individual road.
The age of proclaiming our reality has evolved into the age of being and actualizing. Leaders serve their communities. If one chooses to join with the community we see the guiding hand of a greater power. Who are any of us to argue with that authority?
This, then, is the first Vampire Entente, designed to raise our awareness and lay the foundation for a vampire evolution.
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