Use your power, young people. Or someone else would || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Now, I have a question there.

00:06What we have thought in conflict management is when you are dealing with conflict, the

00:09best way is to allow each other to take the other person's perspective and then come to

00:19a resolution through compromise.

00:21The current state of the world doesn't seem to be so.

00:24In fact, there are economic incentives to even keep the conflict open.

00:29Okay, so how do you combat this system, especially in the current state of wokeism, where wokeism

00:35is actually gaining a lot of currency.

00:38You can't even, you know, be in the camp of ignorance is a bliss or be fancy.

00:44That's one thing, sir.

00:45And secondly, I'm all about hypocrisy.

00:47In fact, I believe almost every human is a hypocrite.

00:50But what I don't understand is entitlement, which comes with hypocrisy.

00:55Like for example, everything to religion, from religion to climate change.

01:00How come, you know, and a middle class Indian switching on his air condition with coal powered

01:07electricity, you know, is committing a great blasphemy against environment.

01:12But EV cars, which are essentially made from materials which are obtained from destruction

01:17of Amazon rainforest, is considered eco-friendly.

01:22And also adding to the wealth of super rich.

01:26So that's just propaganda, no?

01:29That's just lack of knowledge.

01:35So once you make it known that the very battery in an EV car is actually an environmental

01:44disaster, the kind of elements that are used in it, and how rare they are, and how much

01:53soil must be unearthed to just get to that.

01:58And then the fact that countries like India have mostly coal fired plants.

02:10So even if you have to charge that battery, then you are burning coal.

02:15You make that known.

02:18And then the moral superiority, the ethical value attached with an EV car goes down.

02:29This one is a clear case of lack of propaganda.

02:34Propaganda is a great thing.

02:35You need to publicize the right information.

02:41And the corporations selling those cars won't do that obviously.

02:45So you have to do that.

02:47And you have the power of social media on your side.

02:51Post as much as you can, ask people to share, let people know.

03:00He asked a lengthy question, I don't think I've answered all of it.

03:04What was it?

03:06All conflict starts first of all within, does it not?

03:13Wars first start in the mind.

03:20We say that when a war is already raging within, then enemies necessarily appear from all sides

03:36externally.

03:38Wars are first of all internal.

03:43And then you look for enemies outside.

03:50So knowing yourself is the way, inner education is the way.

03:55And if you don't have inner education, all you have is scientific education and technological

04:02advancement.

04:04Then you are giving more and more sophisticated tools to people who are internally ignorant.

04:16The fellow does not know what he wants, but he has his finger on the nuke button.

04:24What would he do?

04:25Internally flustered, ignorant, hateful, unfulfilled, angry and jealous.

04:39And he is commanding nuclear forces.

04:45He can launch an ICBM.

04:47What do you expect now?

04:54Most of the nuclear powers are democracies, are they not?

04:59So we have politicians sitting as the commanders of the armies.

05:09Now on one hand we keep blasting our politicians as very very disgusting people.

05:24On the other hand, we have given them our nuclear stockpiles to command and fire.

05:35Don't you see that's a very odd, inflammable combo?

05:43The same politician that you accuse of being a rioter, an arsonist, a corrupt person, a

06:05wild man, sometimes even a murderer.

06:14The same politician then becomes the Prime Minister, the President or somebody.

06:23And this person is commanding 400 nuclear warheads now.

06:30Don't you see how precarious our position is?

06:36The entire world loves to hate, let's say, somebody like Trump.

06:45And you would even say that he is an imbecile, he is mentally unstable, emotionally he is a wreck.

06:51All those things were said about him, no?

06:57And what was he commanding?

07:00The world's largest nuclear force capable of destroying the earth at least 20 times over.

07:11That's the might of the US nuclear arsenal.

07:14Not one country, it can destroy the entire planet 20 times over.

07:23And when you are that kind of a person inside, as we said, you will necessarily be able to

07:32locate if not create enemies on the outside.

07:36That's the reason why powerful countries have to necessarily get into conflicts.

07:44If there is no war, then power starts feeling suffocated.

07:53What do you do with all these sleek missiles?

07:58See how beautiful they look, they must be put to use.

08:03So then you search for wars, then you search for wars.

08:08Now you are saying there is so much conflict in the world.

08:15That conflict is coming from the mind of the man, which man am I talking of?

08:20Not just the decision maker, but actually all those who put the decision maker in the chair.

08:28And who are those people?

08:29You and me.

08:32Because there is darkness in our mind, so we put dark people in positions of power.

08:38Do you see that?

08:41You will do as you are and that implies you will vote as you are, no?

08:48So if the common man is steeped in ignorance, that's the kind of leaders he is going to

08:57select or elect, correct?

09:01And then they will fight, then they will fight.

09:09Is it surprising?

09:11Is that not obvious?

09:12So what is the solution?

09:15Mass awareness is the solution.

09:19It cannot be a top-down thing, it has to arise from the grassroots.

09:30You have to know what is valuable.

09:34You have to know that knowledge, realization, freedom are more important than anything else.

09:50And then there is a solution to conflict, otherwise you can keep having any numbers

09:55of conferences and summits, nothing comes out of it.

10:01In fact, we had a few particular conferences, the Second World War came out of that.

10:11You know, the Second World War was born out of actually a treaty, the Treaty of Persia.

10:23So you can actually get together and have a conference and that conference results in

10:28a world war and you will say it's a peace conference, it's a conference to keep the

10:34universe in one piece.

10:46It has to begin with you, it has to begin with me, there is no other way.

10:53This might sound old-fashioned, not very exciting, but sorry, this is the only solution.

11:00And if this is not the solution, then calamity is the option.

11:07The ones who are my age or older than me in this room will probably escape with lesser

11:21damage because we anyway don't have too many decades to live.

11:27But you people have what, five decades, six decades, on an average that's how long you live.

11:35So the onus is on you to not let the planet degrade beyond a point.

11:45You are inheriting it, you will be inhabiting it, the older ones who are ruining it would

11:57ruin it and be gone and all the muck and the debris will be on your head.

12:09So it's you who should stand up.

12:15The 70 and 80 year olds are doing all kinds of nonsense and they will happily die now.

12:24You will be left to bear the brunt.

12:28Don't let them do what they are doing.

12:37Social media, democracy, technology, they are in some sense great equalizers.

12:46Even a common man today has a voice, use that voice.

12:53Even the president of the world is just a Twitter account and you too have that.

12:59Even the president cannot have two accounts, leverage that.

13:10And if you don't leverage that, then all kinds of disgusting forces are there to leverage that.

13:18You know the kind of stuff that goes viral on social media.

13:28So all the disgusting creatures are very efficiently and very dedicatedly doing their jobs.

13:44And the ones who mean well to the planet are just conferring and conferring and thinking

13:52and hesitating.

13:54Where does that leave us?

14:01Get up, fight, stand up for what you know is right.

14:11Make your life and this planet worth living.

14:18I am preaching, so sorry.

14:23I am preaching, so sorry.

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