David Foster Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

This is water.

College is supposed to teach you "how tot think"
But whats truly important is the choice of what to think about.

Skepticism of the value of the totally obvious.

BLIND CERTAINTY- A closed mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

Critical awareness.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables the tendency to get lost in the abstract argument in my head instead of paying attention to whats going on outside of me.

Pay attention. WAKE UP.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercising some control over what and how you think.


Learn how tot hunk. How to pay attention.

You get to decide how you get to see it.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and being able to truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad, petty, unsexy ways everyday. THAT is real freedom. That is being educated and understanding how to think.

TRUTH.

Life before death. Simple awareness. Awareness of something so real and essential, thats in plain view the entire time that we have to keep reminding ourselves- this is water. This is water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

Stop the new world order!

Understand that the way to bring about real change in the world is to participate in non compliance- doing th right thing.

Disconnect yourself from the system.

Realize your connection to others.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oBhEMOX6Q

Why should we support agricultural development around the world?

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/a-farmer-by-skill-if-not-by-choice/


People must help people, around the world, so we can coexist peacefully and happily.

The green revolution -

Farming training centers-

Education eliminates ignorance; teaching yoga to promote population control

Yoga is beneficial for mental health, physical health and mindfulness of how the two are interlinked. Yoga helps those who practice to be more present from moment to moment rather than getting stuck in past memories or daydreaming about the future. True happiness likes in the present moment.

In practicing yoga, stress is reduced and problems that before may have seemed impossible become solvable.
So what are some of todays biggest issues that yoga may help to address in a healthier manner?


Population control has become an issue of our time, for today to world population has exceeded 7 billion people.

"From the five billion in 1987, the planet has now 7.3 billion people. At the world level, the current rapid expansion of the population, which has been accompanied by a disproportionate increase in the usage of resources, represents a major threat to the entire planetary ecosystem; these facts have led some scientists to say that we are going beyond “the planetary boundaries” and we are facing the possibility of a major crisis, called “the sixth extinction.”

Sixth extinction?! What a crisis! Do we have the ability to heal the planet?
What does yoga have to do with population issues?

Well, yoga values recognize that we are all interconnected and interdependent. Yoga values also emphasize solidarity, compassion, and respect of nature. 

Certainly, the international community has recognized the right of couples and individuals to decide the number and spacing of their children. Yoga makes us aware that every right implies also obligations; that the exercise of every right demands also assuming some responsibilities. The famous yoga restriction called Ahimsa, usually translated as “non-harming,” could be better understood as a mandate of respect; respect of others, respect of future generations, and respect of the entire planetary ecosystem.