They Sold You Dreams. You Paid with Your Life. || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00What we are taught in conflict management is when you are dealing with conflict the best

00:04way is to take the other person's perspective and then come to a resolution through compromise.

00:09The current state of the world doesn't seem to be so. In fact there are economic incentives

00:14to even keep the conflict open. That conflict is coming from the mind of the man. Which man

00:20am I talking of? Not just the decision maker but actually all those who put the decision maker in

00:26the chair and who are those people? You and me. So if the common man is steeped in ignorance

00:33that's the kind of leaders he is going to select or elect and then they will fight.

00:39It has to begin with you. It has to begin with me. There is no other way. This might sound old

00:46fashioned not very exciting but sorry this is the only solution and if this is not the solution then

00:56it has to begin with. Now I have a question there. What we are taught in conflict management is when

01:03you are dealing with conflict the best way is to allow each other to take the other person's

01:12perspective and then come to a resolution through compromise. The current state of the world doesn't

01:18seem to be so. In fact there are economic incentives to even keep the conflict open.

01:24Okay so how do you combat this system especially in the current state of wokeism where wokeism is

01:31actually gaining a lot of currency. You can't even you know be in the camp of ignorance is a bliss or be

01:38fan sitting. That's one thing sir and secondly I'm all about hypocrisy. In fact I believe almost every

01:44human is a hypocrite but what I don't understand is entitlement which comes with hypocrisy. Like for example,

01:51everything to religion from religion to climate change. How come you know and a middle class Indian

01:58switching on his air condition with coal powered electricity you know is committing a great blasphemy

02:06against environment but EV cars which are essentially made from materials which are obtained from destruction

02:12of Amazon rainforest is considered eco-friendly. Okay and also adding to the wealth of super rich.

02:20So that's just propaganda no? That's just lack of knowledge.

02:28So once you make it known that the very battery in an EV car is actually an environmental disaster,

02:41the kind of elements that are used in it and how rare they are and how much soil must be unearthed to

02:51just get to that. And then the fact that countries like India have

03:03mostly coal-fired plants so even if you have to charge that battery then you're burning coal. You make that known

03:12and then the moral superiority, the ethical value attached with an EV car goes down. This one is a clear case of

03:27lack of propaganda. Propaganda is a great thing. You need to publicize the right information

03:34and the corporations selling those cars won't do that obviously. So you have to do that and you have the power

03:43of social media on your side. Post as much as you can, ask people to share, let people know.

03:56He asked a lengthy question. I don't think I answered all of it. What was it?

04:00All conflict starts first of all within. No, does it not? Does it not? Wars first start in the mind.

04:15We say that when a war is already raging within,

04:22then enemies necessarily appear

04:30from all sides externally. Wars are first of all internal. And then you look for enemies outside.

04:45So knowing yourself is the way. Inner education is the way.

04:50And if you don't have inner education, all you have is scientific education and technological advancement.

04:59Then you are giving more and more sophisticated tools to people who are internally ignorant.

05:12The fellow does not know what he wants, but he has his finger on the nuke button.

05:17What would he do? Internally flustered, ignorant, hateful,

05:27unfulfilled,

05:30angry and jealous.

05:31And he is commanding nuclear forces. He can launch an ICBM. What do you expect now?

05:44Most of the nuclear powers are democracies, are they not?

05:54So we have politicians sitting

05:59as the commanders of the armies, right?

06:03Now on one hand, we keep

06:10blasting our politicians

06:14as very, very

06:17disgusting people. On the other hand,

06:19we have given them our nuclear stockpiles to command and fire.

06:30Don't you see that's a very odd, inflammable combo?

06:36The same politician that you accuse

06:46of being

06:48a rioter,

06:50an arsonist,

06:51a corrupt person,

07:00a wild man,

07:04sometimes even a murderer.

07:09The same politician

07:12then becomes the

07:13prime minister or the president or somebody.

07:15And this person

07:21is commanding 400 nuclear warheads now.

07:25Don't you see

07:27how precarious our position is?

07:32The entire world

07:34loves to hate, let's say, somebody like Trump.

07:36And you would even say that he's an imbecile,

07:42he's mentally unstable,

07:44emotionally, he's a wreck.

07:46All those things were said about him, no?

07:52And what was he commanding?

07:55The world's largest

07:58nuclear force capable of destroying the earth

08:02at least 20 times over.

08:04That's the might of the US nuclear arsenal.

08:09Not one country.

08:10It can destroy the entire planet 20 times over.

08:18And when you are that kind of a person inside,

08:20as we said,

08:21you will necessarily be able

08:25to

08:27locate, if not create, enemies on the outside.

08:30That's the reason why powerful countries have to necessarily get into conflicts.

08:39If there is no war,

08:41then power starts feeling suffocated.

08:48What do you do with all

08:50these sleek missiles?

08:51See how beautiful they look?

08:55They must be put to use.

08:58So then you search for wars.

09:00Then you search for wars.

09:03Now you are saying there is so much conflict in the world.

09:10That conflict is coming from the mind of the man.

09:14Which man am I talking of?

09:15Not just the decision maker.

09:17But actually all those who put the decision maker in the chair.

09:23And who are those people?

09:25You and me.

09:27Because there is darkness in our mind,

09:30so we put dark people in positions of power.

09:33Do you see that?

09:36You will do as you are.

09:38And that implies you will vote as you are.

09:41No?

09:43So if the common man is steeped in ignorance,

09:48that's the kind

09:51of leaders he is going to select or elect.

09:54Correct?

09:56And then they will fight.

10:00Then they will fight.

10:03So what is the solution?

10:10Mass awareness is the solution.

10:14It cannot be a top down thing.

10:18It has to arise from the grass roots.

10:25You have to know what is valuable.

10:30You have to know

10:30that knowledge, realization, freedom are more important than anything else.

10:45And then there is a solution to conflict.

10:48Otherwise you can keep having any numbers of conferences and summits.

10:55Nothing comes out of it.

10:57In fact, we had a few particular conferences.

11:01The second world war came out of that.

11:06You know,

11:08you know the second world war was born out of actually a treaty.

11:14The treaty of?

11:15So you can actually get together and have a conference.

11:22And that conference results in a world war.

11:25And you will say it's a peace conference.

11:27It's a conference to keep the universe in one piece.

11:32It has to begin with you, it has to begin with me.

11:46There is no other way.

11:48This might sound old-fashioned, not very exciting, but sorry, this is the only solution.

11:55And if this is not the solution, then calamity is the option.

12:02The ones who are my age or elder than me in this room will probably escape

12:11with lesser damage because we anyway don't have too many decades to live.

12:22But you people have what?

12:23I mean, five decades, six decades?

12:27On an average, that's how long you'll live.

12:29So the onus is on you to not let the planet degrade beyond a point.

12:40You are inheriting it.

12:44You will be inhabiting it.

12:49The older ones who are ruining it would ruin it and be gone.

12:55And all the murk and the debris will be on your head.

13:04So it's you who should stand up.

13:08No?

13:10The 70 and 80-year-olds are doing all kinds of nonsense.

13:16And they'll happily die now.

13:19You'll be left to bear the brunt.

13:26Don't let them do what they are doing.

13:32Social media, democracy, technology, they are in some sense great equalizers.

13:41Even a common man today has a voice.

13:45Use that voice.

13:48Even the president of the world is just a twitter account.

13:52And you too have that, no?

13:54Even the president cannot have two accounts.

14:00Leverage that.

14:03Leverage that.

14:05And if you don't leverage that,

14:08then all kinds of disgusting forces are there to leverage that.

14:12So all the disgusting creatures are very efficiently and very dedicatedly doing their jobs.

14:36And the ones who mean well to the planet are just conferring and conferring and thinking and hesitating.

14:48Where does that leave us?

14:56Get up.

14:57Fight.

15:00Stand up for what you know is right.

15:02Make your life and this planet worth living.

15:13I am preaching.

15:15So sorry.

15:15Oh, you muy good.

15:18So.

15:26Should I be.

15:27Yeah.

15:29See you.

15:30Yeah.

15:32Oh, you play.

15:35Hey.

15:36Hey.

15:37Hey.

15:39Yeah.

15:39Hey.

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