Being academically educated with degrees and Phds don't necessarily make one alert and vigilant. Highly educated people are the least learned people. The full time employee category of people have no extra time to invest in their ongoing personal education as a result they stay ignorant and accept whatever the media feeds them as the reality. And you know what is the menu the media sells every day? Remember, Ignorance of the masses is bliss for the ultra-rich because they can profit a lot from it but ignorance can never be bliss for those struggling financially. What is good for the other, may not serve our purpose.
Being alert and vigilant is the need of the hour. There are few good people whose mission is good and it serves our purpose. While expecting good for themselves they expect the same goodness for others. There are few existing institutes in the world whose mission is in line with social responsibility reaching out to the ignorant masses and providing them the education, health, food, clothes, shelter and modern technological facilities. Such organizations are rare to locate because they are few in numbers.
People need to be educated to be alert, vigilant and smart in order to take good advantage of the abundant resources available to live a good life. Many people are leading a life of quite desperation and they need to be educated and made alert about the real happenings, the circumstances, the laws and policies of the world.
In ancient time, our ancestors kept themselves alert to spot a prey or to guard themselves from danger. They avoided being attacked by wild animals. The same level of alertness is required today to survive in this hostile world of ours.
The nature is inherently good but the people by nature are of deviant characters. So being alert and vigilant can promise a better future for the next generation.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
