Vote for the World

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Vote for the World

United States of America has acquired leadership position in the world, not just militarily, politically. See, if you hear “wear these blue trousers,” half the world, without knowing why, they’re also wearing blue trousers. If you tear your trousers, half the world is tearing up their trousers. I’m watching this with great interest. Now, the entire world is looking up to you. Is it not important that we fix ourselves and set the right example for the world? Today, I’m telling you, in the rest of the world, for a whole lot of youth in the world, America means free flowing alcohol. America means drugs on the street. America means living a freaky life. America means war. We must change this. America means healthful living. America means joyful living. America means responsible behavior. America means a great life.

Participating in the democratic process is not politics, it is the fundamental responsibility of being citizens of a nation. Democracy means in Indian languages, in Tamril for example. That means it’s the leadership of the people. While in this country they have told you, “Of the people, by the people, whatever.” Yes, it is leadership of the people. We are not electing one person, we are asking one person to represent us, yes? Now, the world is in a unique situation. That is, there was a time … We have developed this mentality which I see everywhere in this country. We have developed this mentality probably in 60’s and 70’s during the cold war period that we must be suspicious about everybody. We must dominate everybody. We must control everybody. You’re living in the past. Those days are over.

We need a leadership. We need a leadership which thinks for the future, not which thinks from the graveyards of past. There was a time when there were 2 big guns on the planet, both super suspicious of each other. Who’s going to shirt first? Now one is a broken gun. This is the time. This is the time to take the world to a visionary, new way of living. You ask any human being on the planet, what do they want? That’s what everybody wants. Everybody wants wellbeing. Everybody wants opportunity. Nobody wants war. Nobody wants poverty. Nobody wants exploitation, but we are not looking at the world still like that, particularly for the leadership in America. All of you, as citizens of this nation, should not think, “Who is better? Who is worse?” That’s not the point. Whoever they are, they must do what you want.

We don’t care who they are. They must do what you want as people of this nation. It is time, instead of thinking, “Whom should I vote?” Why don’t all of you, because today we have medias and mediums through which you can contact them, which was never possible in the past, why don’t we set this much, that in the next 4 years it doesn’t matter who rules this country. They will not open up one more theater of war. Why don’t you get this commitment from those who want to get elected? Believe me, when they want to get elected, they’re willing to make commitments. Later on, we don’t know, but now, in any country, this is true. The best time to talk to politicians is pre-election time.

We must do this. We must shift our way of thinking. World is changing, but leadership is not changing in its mentality. Everywhere, not in any one country, but America’s leadership is important not just for the United States of America but for the rest of the world. If you do not know, you must come and see. For example in India, I’m traveling. Wherever I see it is there, but especially in India. People are looking at American election as if is their election. It doesn’t mean a damn thing to them, but they’re looking at American election as if it is their country’s election, with that much interest and involvement. When this is there, it’s time we conduct this in a certain way, that we become an example.

We must give up these ideas of conquest, of dominance. Instead of trying to conquer somebody, it’s better to embrace somebody. See, I’m telling you, today this nation has become big enough, big enough, large enough, to embrace the world, but our hearts have not become big enough to embrace the world. When I say “embrace the world,” for example, it seems they’re telling me they have spent about 1.2 trillion dollars in war in the last 12, 15 years. Nearly a million people dead, 2, 3 nations destroyed. Maybe, I assume that they entered there with good intentions, but this is the result, all right? It doesn’t matter. I tried to do good things to you but all that happened is you got crushed, but still, there is something to do about it, isn’t it?

I was driving within the speed limits. I was driving properly but somehow you came in my way and I smashed you. Is it not necessary that I get down and see what I can do for you? I’m saying, instead of sending 100, 150 thousand soldiers and spending these billions of dollars out there, with 10 percent of this you can educate every child in middle east. You can nourish every child in middle east. You can skill them. You send your doctors, your engineers, your business experts, and America’s business will boom and world will love America.

Just look at this. Suppose United States of America takes up every child’s education, not just in middle east, in every other country where they’re not able to do it, because it costs nothing, I’m telling you. If you spend 10 dollars a month you can nourish a child. You understand? That drone, that missile, that bomb is costing you billions, isn’t it? Instead of that, you can make the world yours. You can make somebody yours either by sitting on their head or just including them, isn’t it? Never before this was possible. This is unique times, because today one nation is in this position where they can do this. They have the necessary economy, necessary strength, military usage can come down to 2 percent of what it is and just use it only extremely selectively, where it is impossible to fix things, but everything else can be fixed.

It is important that America moves from trying to dominate the world to include the world. If you educated half the children around the world, you could pick the best. You could pick the best and ask them to come into your country. You’re fearing something that you don’t have to fear. You’re losing a tremendous opportunity when you’re sitting on a platform of leadership. Instead of exercising it in a sensible manner, you’re earning the hate of all the people on the planet. People are looking at you as exploiters. Why don’t they look at you as educators? Why don’t they look at you as people who skill them rather than who will kill them? You must skill the world. If you skill the world, you will have opportunities. American business has tremendous opportunities if they go out, along with the U.S. government to do things.

You can spend 10 percent of the money that you’re spending on the military and do things in the world where the world will become yours, out of love, out of involvement, out of gratitude, not by conquest, because by conquest, it’s not going to work. Well, we have understood that it doesn’t matter what you do, one nutcase with a nuclear bomb can do things to you. Instead of living in fear, we can live with earning people’s gratitude and love. It’s very much possible. This is not some naïve idea. This is, I’m saying it in a simplistic way. I’ve taught through this, I’ve written documents on this. How this could be done is just that in some places there is mistrust. You can live it for some time, take those countries which are good and say, “America is willing to educate every child, nourish every child on the planet, who needs it.” Believe me, in 5, 10 years, entire world will be looking up to America.

This is what you must ask out of your leadership. Who is willing to do it? The question is not whether you elect this person or that person. Are they willing to make this commitment, that we will not open up another theater of war. There are other ways of handling problems, because even if you enter with your weaponry, with good intentions, the result that happens is neither good for you nor for anybody. It’s just going on. I’m saying, with the expertise of business, technology, engineering and schools that you have built here, you can go build across the world and make a business out of it too. Not all of it is charity.

You don’t have to give it away. Business today does not mean that I spend 10 dollars, I must get 15 dollars or 20 dollars next month. Let’s leave this shortsighted nonsense. If we develop a humanity with a certain skill and talent and gratitude, the nation is made in future, isn’t it? If everybody with the best talents want to come to United States which is how this country has grown, this must continue. For this, you don’t wait. You don’t wait for those poor countries to develop talent and you steal them. You go there and develop the talent. Why can’t you go there and develop the talent? Because I see not one American looks like the other. Obviously you come from many different corners of the world. We can still continue that. Not just that.

A time has come where national boundaries will not mean much in future because people are communicating across borders. Technologies have unified nations. It doesn’t mean anything. The boundaries that we’ve built in the past does not mean anything. I want you to understand this. At one time when kings were ruling these different, little countries, they always built big fortresses. Why did the fortresses become irrelevant? Certainly because we started flying. When people could not fly, a fortress was all safety, but once they started flying, a fortress is a stupid thing because the enemy will come and bomb you and you are trapped.

The same thing today, national boundaries will not mean anything in future because we have technologies with which people are communicating everywhere. Now you’re trying to put up cyber walls. What is needed is not cyber walls. We have to use our cerebral material to connect with the rest of the world and make the world ours, not by conquest, but by love, by inclusion, by embrace. Please ask your leaders if they can do it. The first and foremost thing is no new theaters of war must be opened. We have seen in our own lifetime, it’s not history book that we are reading. World War 1 happened, World War 2 happened. So many millions of people died. Any sensible human being … I’ve always wondered, how did the people let it happen in those times? Not 1 or 2. 30 million people, 50 million people dying, how did they let it happen?

Well, in our own time, it’s happening. Yes? In our own times in 21st century, it’s happening. Is it not time? When the time to vote comes, this is what it means. You are voting either for the wellbeing of the world, or out of fear. Some nonsense, so the question is not whom you elect. You can elect whoever you want. Above all, democracy is a functional democracy only when you don’t behave like tribes. When I say, “Don’t behave like tribes,” I’m amazed. I’m just watching the language on the news channels. You’re either a Democrat or a Republican. You already decided, without consideration. Democracy will be a democracy only when it is a considered voted, not when it’s a committed vote. You are pre-committed. This means you are going back to tribal days.

You are going back to feudal ways of living through democratic process. Democratic process has to be successful means just a day before the election, hear, seeing what all they’re promising, will they do this or not? You must make up your mind as an individual. Not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, because that means you are destroying democracy and going back to tribal ways of functioning. Anyway, I am this. I will vote for this. No, it must be a considered vote. It should never be a committed vote, and all of them who stand up for elections must know that this is a considered vote. They are going to consider. It’s not a committed vote. Any way the blue states and red states, I am amazed. There should be nobody blue or red til that day comes. Hello?