David Albert Habif is a documentary filmmaker and the writer, director and producer of Still Human and The Passage of Time.
This channel features original documentaries, visual essays, interviews and creative work examining power, policy and the stories societies tell themselves—from drug prohibition, homelessness and foster care to aging, media and civil liberties.
The Prohibition Abolitionist is David’s ongoing drug-policy project examining the history, machinery and consequences of America’s war on drugs.
All films, essays and original productions uploaded here are created or produced by David Albert Habif. Versions of Still Human and The Passage of Time available through YouTube Movies, Tubi, Amazon and other services are authorized distributor releases.
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Beautiful, powerful, sexy
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This was an eye-opener for me today.
The West has a habit of borrowing Eastern philosophy, simplifying it until it sounds interesting, and losing the philosophy in the process. Yin and yang becomes light versus darkness—a neat symbol of two opposing forces held in balance.
But as he explains here: “It’s not about balance. It’s about motion.”
Night is not the opposite of day. Night becomes day. One condition contains the movement toward the next.
“Stop trying to farm against the weather.”
That line is going to stay with me. It doesn’t mean becoming passive or surrendering control. A farmer still has to work. It means recognizing the forces already in motion and working with reality instead of demanding that reality cooperate with you.
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