This is water

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This is waterThe article of “This is water”that adapted from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace different from the most common commencement speech let me excited at the moment.As the beginning of “This is water”, David Foster Wallace telled a fable which about two young fish and an older fish. In this story ,A question that how's the water is presented. We can't help but will think that we present ourself here as the young fish What the hell is water? The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. The article talk about how to think involving liberal arts education Citing examples, the article describe a normal day of a university graduates. you get up in the morning, work hard for nine or ten hours and go shopping. In this period of time, you meet all kinds of bad things. how to face this bad things , how to think the people around you, how to control your consciousness.My favorite view of the article of “This is water” is that do not judge people by one-sided . See your contactperson, You can't judge him the person is good or bad by an action or a word . In a different way of thinking, You will see different things. As the article said , you can choose to look differently at the lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line ,maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk who just helped your spouse resolve problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. It just depends on what you want to consider. For lot of bad things, if we change the way of think , we will find advantage from its . There is an old saying in China, misfortune might be a blessing in disguise. The article also take about worship .If you worship money and things , then you will never have enough. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. We shoud worship our own heart ,get really inner freedom. According to David Foster Wallace’s point of view, Water represents the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities,but it is hard to see. David Foster Wallace telled us the really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways.Everyone self-centered from birth,but the real freedom is take care of others around you.From the commonplace of life is the most obvious, the article discuss how to get rid of the repetitive life, get the inner freedom, keep the conscious living. David Foster Wallace remind us that the most simple things in life is often the most difficult. Life's not always very easy, we must learn to remind ourself out of the mire of mind-set. Give the people around you more space, because you don't know what hardship they are facing now.The Review Writing of “Moon Landing Faked”Nowadays, numerous conspiracy theories were presented, such as NASA fake the moon landing, global warming is a hoax, Boston Marathon bombing is an “inside job” .It sounds ridiculous ,but many people come to believe in theses. Why so many people believe in conspiracy theories? The article give the analysis of this phenomenon supported by many scientific studies. Primitively, many scholars have come to think of conspiracy theories as paranoid and delusional Influenced by the view ofTimothy Melley. Yet, such pathological explanations have proven to be widely insufficient because conspiracy theories are not just the implausible visions of a paranoid minority. They can't all be paranoid schizophrenics. Generally speaking ,a person is unlikely to believe in two contradictory conspiracy theories at the same time. Instead, the researches found that many participants believed in contradictory conspiracy theories. An important conclusion based scientific analysis is that people don't tend to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the specifics, but rather because of higher-order beliefs that support conspiracy-like thinking more generally. conspiracism is not just about belief in an individual theory, but rather an ideological lens through which we view the world. On the other side, belief in conspiracy theories has recently been not only linked to the rejection of science ,but also linked to leading people to become disengaged from important political and societal topics. In fact , the fallacy of conspiracy theories lies in their tendency to describe every event as 'intentional' and 'planned' thereby seriously underestimating the random nature and unintended consequences of many political and social actions. Conspiracy theories is associated with feelings of powerlessness, uncertainty and a general lack of agency and control, a likely purpose to help people “make sense of the world” by providing simple explanations for complex societal events . But, as Al Gore said the truth is not always convenient.Author give some explanations of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories through many scientific researches and examples. As the author said, conspiracy theories sow public mistrust and undermine democratic debate by diverting attention away from important scientific, political and societal issues. So the public should actively require the government to provide truthful and transparent information, remaining unconvinced by the information. then the author pointing out that the mistake of conspiracy theories was that they got everything to "plan” and "deliberately". I think that although we may feel relax and comfort when we make the problems simple and take the government's explanation as a hoax, the truth is here. We can not always live in lies. So we should think of the various problems that the government happens with a scientific attitude, facing with all kinds of problems actively.Nowdays , we are also in an environment of rumor, it is a difficulty things that how to identify these rumors . As the author said, we may feel relax and comfort when we make the problems simple .But, the truth is not always convenient.It is also a science of identify these rumors in our life.。